Copper Lustre

Daisy 'n' Chain is a slighly bulbous square style featuring rosettes at the handle corners and in the arch finial. The chain decorations are found at the handle terminals and under the finial arch.

Wilkinson's round body style is embellished with stylized hawthorn leaves at the handle and finial terminals. Because of the three-toed lustre treatment on the leaves, some collectors nicknamed this style "Claw."

This is a square body style utilizing the same blank as the Daisy body style but with a bullet-shaped finial and a fan-shaped design at handle terminals.

Diamond Simplicity is a variation of the Simplicity body style. It features an embossed diamond prominently displayed on the handles and finials.

We know that Powell and Bishop decorated this shape with a Rose motif while Anthony Shaw used lustre bands. It is possible that other motifs will be found on this body style in the future.

This late square style has intricate basketweaving embossed in the lower third of holloware bodies. Basketweave has become one of the most collectible of the late Shaw products.

Registered in 1887.

A classic Gothic body style with grape leaves and fruit both at the throat and below the upper handle terminals on pitchers. There is detailed embossing on the throat of the pitchers. Covered items have a grape cluster finial.

Dangling Tulips is the nickname of a body style registered by Edward Pearson. A firm named Pearson, Farrall & Meakin operated a pottery in Shelton in 1854. The firm did not last very long for there is no record of a notice of dissolution for the partnership. Mr. Pearson and Mr Farrall evidently went their separate ways, both potting the same shape under their individual names. (The Meakin in this partnership was James Meakin, not one of the Tea Leaf Meakins.)

Elsmore & Forster's very popular wheat style was widely copied by other potters, both British and Amrican. It is an extremely well potted line which is found in many elegant decorations. In addition to the copper lustre enhanced version, there are examples with cobalt, a lighter blue, green and gold lustre, a mustard yellow and even in a Rockingham glaze. 

Registered in 1859.

Many potters produced goods in the Gothic style, such as Classic Gothic, Full Panelled Gothic, etc. To our knowledge, only Elsmore and Forster actually marked their wares with the "Gothic Shape" name.

The mark has appeared on a relish dish that has also been found marked "Portland Shape."

Plain Tobacco Leaf plates have been found maked "Gothic Shape" also.

The Davis' utilized Clementson's popular Teaberry as the motif on their wares. The name of this very plain round shape, typical of the 1870's, is derived from the bands of the C-shaped handle of the teapot and repeated on the upturned handles of the sugar bowl.

A vanity box with the same banding was marked Livesley and Davis , evidently a transition piece made at the time the pottery was changing ownership.