Tea Leaf

Body Style: Scroll and Fan

Biography

One of the body styles made by Sebring and named by the tea leaf club. It features branch-like handles similar to Chelsea, with heavy gold decoration on lids in a triangle like design that "sections" the piece and forms almost a cameo around the tea leaf.  

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Sebring Pottery
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Sydenham Shape

Biography

Sydenham Shape was a factory named shape generally thought to have been registered about 1853 by T & R Boote and Joseph Clementson.  While tea leaf decorated wares are thought to have begun around 1856, the Anthony Shaw mark on an early piece of Sydenham Shape predates this. 

 

This body style on holloware such as sugar bowls and teapots features an elongated leaf folded up from the bottom over vertical panels .  Plates can be found in round and octagonal shapes.

Naming Source: Factory Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Boote
Clementson
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Seashore (Plain)

Biography

A body style by corn with a shell finial and dolphin handles - hence seashore.  Produced by W & E Corn, this body style features a squarish shape similar to Bamboo. Handles are large bracket shaped.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Rectangular
Potters:
Corn
Motifs:
Tea Leaf