Bath

Body Style: Daisy 'n' Chain

Biography

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.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oblong, Square

Body Style: Hawthorn

Biography

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."

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round

Body Style: Diamond Simplicity

Biography

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

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round

Body Style: Basketweave

Biography

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.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oblong, Square

Body Style: Ceres Shape

Biography

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.

 

Naming Source: Factory Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre, Green and Gold, Polychrome with Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round

Body Style: Banded Round

Biography

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. 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round

Body Style: Fig Cousin

Biography

The addition of pink lustre makes this basic fig-leaved blank a very elaborate and showy body style. Note that the pink lustre detail even extends to the lids of children's pieces. Fig Cousin is one of the most prized of Tea Leaf body styles.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre with added Pink Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Davenport
Hughes
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Chinese Shape

Biography

An elegantly paneled style with leaf embossing at the handle terminals and surrounding the rosebud finial. Chinese Shape is found decorated with Tea Leaf or Teaberry motifs; even with gold lustre motifs on lighter weight bodies. Some examples by Anthony Shaw actually are in lustre band only and may be either panelled or smooth.  Red Cliff copied the lines and the distinctive Shaw tea leaf in their mid-20th century reproduction line.

Naming Source: Factory Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Octagon (8-Sided), Oval

Body Style: Full Panelled Gothic

Biography

The vertical panels of this Gothic body style flow gently outward to the wide base. The collar is widely flared above the neck. Pitchers and teapots have bracket handles while covered pieces are found with ear-style lug handles. This Gothic style does not have a deeply indented arc near the base that characterizes the Classic Gothic.

 

 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Octagon (8-Sided)