Draped Fern and Leaf

Naming Source:

Club Named

Potter

Thomas Hughes
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Burslem and Longport, Staffordshire

Manufacturing Era(s):

1890s

Treatment:

Copper Lustre

Footprints/Shapes:

Round

Type(s) of Ware:

Dinnerware

Motif(s):

Tea Leaf

Description:

Another of Hughes' lavishly embossed body styles, it features ferns and leaves at handle terminals.

It is very similar to a body style potted in white ironstone identified as Hawthorn's Fern in White Ironstone: A Collector's Guide, Wetherbee, 1996.

John Hawthorn liquidated his business in 1887. Is it possible that the Hughes pottery bought these molds for this piece?

Body Style