Gold Lustre

This is a simple body style featuring "C" shaped handles and a distinctive rim with a recessed line running just under the rim. Pieces flare out a bit at the top of holloware pieces and then taper down to the lightly smaller base.

A body style by Wick China Company, Erie features medium ribbing emanating from the upper body of serving pieces down to the base. The pitcher has a low flared spout and a "C" shaped handle.

The Aurora body style by Wick China Company is often marked with a circular mark that says Aurora China and has a "T" a "W" and a "C" overlayed in the middle. This body style has an oval footprint and flares out slightly from the neck of serving pieces to a mid-level waist, then tapers down to the scalloped base. It has verticle lines that divide the front and back into three sections. Heavy embossed scrolls accent these indented lines as well as the rims.

Developed by Wallace and Chetwynd, Gently Panelled has lines that divide the body of its serving pieces into four lobes. The front and back lobes protrude further out than do the side panels. The bracket handles sport beeding along each handle side, and the steepled finial is quite impressive. The Tea Leaf motif is more like two leaves and a bud and very streamlined.

This fancy body style features a bulging, bulbous mid-section with ring handles that attach just above the bulge and face downwards. The ring finial is shaped with a somewhat clover shaped opening. To date, only two sugar bowls and a plate have been discovered.

American Favorite has a domed lid, stepped finial and oval shaped base with uplift handles. The stepped finial and lug uplifted handles have an impressed flower shape embossed on them.  

Golden drape is a bulbous body style that features a smaller base and a flared neck on pitchers. The handles are of a "C-scrolled" design.

This body style features twisted rope handles, a hexagonal spheroid shape with a recessed base, and the lids are plateau with horizontal flattened arch finials. 

Gentle Square, named for the rounded contours of its basic square shape, is probably best known for its whimsical handle and finial treatment. The body has corner fluting similar to Meakin's Fishhook body style. Some collectors have nicknamed this style "Rooster," while others feel the design resembles a fish rather than a fowl.

Registered in 1876.

Unlike his predecessors, Elsmore & Forster, Thomas Elsmore used the standard Tea Leaf motif on his wares. While it is usually found in creamy yellow shades of ironstone, there are known pieces in the traditional white color. The shape is essentially a very bulbous round with high domed lids on the lidded tea set pieces. The oriental flavor of the shape is reminiscent of the ginger-jars of ancient China.