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Body Style: Sweet Gum

Biography

A club-named body style, it features embossed leaves around the finial terminals that resemble the Sweet Gum leaves.

Naming Source: N/A
Manufacturing Era: 1850s, 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oblong
Potters:
Unknown
Motifs:
Acorn

Clementson - New York Shape - TB - Chamber Pot - with Inside rim for lid - Top View

Clementson - New York Shape - TB - Chamber Pot - with Inside rim for lid - Top View

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Item: Chamber Pot
Potter: Joseph Clementson
Location: Shelton, Hanley, Staffordshire
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: British
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Mid-Level
Type of Ware:
Body Style: New York Shape
Treatment:
Motif:
Finials: N/A
Adults/Child's Pieces:
Footprints/Shapes:
Mark: N/A

Potter: Richard Alcock

Biography

Richard Alcock began manufacturing at the Central Pottery in 1870.  He apparently enlarged and improved these works.  He made white (and tea leaf) ironstone exclusively.

 

In 1881, he was listed as an earthenware manufacturer employing some 150 employees.  He lived at Hollies House, Wolstanton.

 

Upon bis death in 1881, the Central Pottery was taken over by Wilkinson and Hulme.

Location: Central Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Cable Shape
Motifs:
Tea Leaf
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