Tea Leaf

This is believed to be the body style name that Ford China company, of Ford City, Pennsylvania, marked its tea leaf wares with.  The body style is a fancy shape with a low waist, ear shaped handles that connect at the top of the neck and at the middle of the waist.  It includes an impressed medley of flowers and leaves.  The spout on pitchers is slightly elongated and the rim is heavily scalloped.

John Edwards was provileged to use the three-plumed feather insignia of the Prince of Whales in his trademark, evidence of a visit to the pottery by that emminent gentleman, the future Edward VII. Dare we assume that Mr. Edwards honored that visit by naming his feather embossed body style "Peerless" in honor of the Prince?

Note: The impressed mark of this potter-named body style does not contain the word "Shape."

Registered in 1887.

Royal Shape is a rare example of a body style that features a bulbous round body with embossed leaves at the upper handle terminal. Note that the impressed mark of this potter-named body style does not contain the word "Shape."

A bulbous base with a belt and buckle wrapped around it. The finial looks a lot like cable or a piece of rope.

The color of pale Baltic amber, Edge Malkin's elegant Tea Leaf ironstone would be at home at a palatial feast. There are two styles of tea services: one has a high domed lid and the other a flat lid. The finials of the sauce tureen and the rare lidded pancake server are truly regal.

This body style features bracket handles, pagoda finials and beading on the handles - hence the name!

The classic lines of this tapered round ware inspired the name "Rondeau." The name is particularly suitable, as in classic poetry and music, a Rondeau features a repeated line. Davenport's Rondeau carries this theme out with the wide and narrow copper lustre bands rimming flatware pieces and the rim and collar bands on hollowware pieces.

Identified by the intricate embossed rope on the handle.

This late Corn body style sports faintly fluted corners on a body that is slighly bulbous. The embossing at the handle terminals resembles the flora of a forest floor. The twisted rope handle completes the rustic design.