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  • NEW STOCK:

This page is updated every Saturday at 10.30 GMT with new stock to the website. All the stock is Antique and over 100 years old unless otherwise described.   Link to New Stock

 

  • CLEARANCE:

This page has lower value pieces on that I want to move on as they either came with other pieces, damaged or they are old stock. Link to Clearance

  • POTTERY:

No porcelain ceramics that are opaque

  • ENGLISH DELFT:

English delft is tin-glazed pottery made in the British Isles between about 1550 and the late 18th century. The main centres of production were London, Bristol and Liverpool with smaller centres at Wincanton, Glasgow and Dublin. English tin-glazed pottery was called “galleyware” or “galliware” and its makers “gallypotters” until the early 18th century; it was given the name delftware after the tin-glazed pottery from the Netherlands, which it often copied, but “delftware” is not usually capitalized. Link to English Delft

  • ENGLISH DELFT TILES:

Tin glazed earthenware tiles, delftware, made in England. Link to English delft tiles

  • DUTCH DELFT:

Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue (Dutch: Delfts blauw), is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience. Most of it is blue and white pottery, and the city of Delft in the Netherlands was the major centre of production, but the term covers wares with other colours, and made elsewhere. Link to Dutch Delft

  • DUTCH DELFT TILES:

Tin glazed earthenware tiles, Delftware, made in Holland and the Low countries. Link to Dutch Delft tiles

  • CONTINENTAL TIN GLAZE:

Tin-glazed pottery is earthenware covered in lead glaze with added tin oxide which is white, shiny and opaque (see tin-glazing for the chemistry); usually this provides a background for brightly painted decoration. It has been important in Islamic and European pottery, but very little used in East Asia. The pottery body is usually made of red or buff-colored earthenware and the white glaze imitated Chinese porcelain. The decoration on tin-glazed pottery is usually applied to the unfired glaze surface by brush with metallic oxides, commonly cobalt oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, manganese dioxide and antimony oxide. The makers of Italian tin-glazed pottery from the late Renaissance blended oxides to produce detailed and realistic polychrome paintings. Link to Continental Tin Glaze

  • BASALT:

Pottery made with a black stoneware body referred to as Black Basalt, pioneered by Wedgwood Link to Basalt

  • CANEWARE:

Cane coloured stoneware mostly unglazed made at the end of the 18th century  into the first half of the 19th century Link to Caneware

  • JASPER WARE:

Jasperware, or jasper ware, is a type of pottery first developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s. Usually described as stoneware, it has an unglazed matte “biscuit” finish and is produced in a number of different colours, of which the most common and best known is a pale blue that has become known as Wedgwood Blue. Relief decorations in contrasting colours (typically in white but also in other colours) are characteristic of jasperware, giving a cameo effect. The reliefs are produced in moulds and applied to the ware as sprigs. Link to Jasperware

  • RED STONEWARE;

A red stoneware body initially made in England by the Elers Brothers, copying Yixing wares from China, in the middle of the 18th century. Production was carried on by Staffordshire potteries until the early part of the 19th century Link to Red stoneware

  • STONEWARE:

Fine stoneware were made in Staffordshire by potteries such as Neale, Wedgwood and Turner in the late 18th century and into the 1early 19th century Felspatic stoneware was produced by the potteries of Yorkshire and the North East Link to Stoneware

  • CANARY YELLOW:

Creamware type body decorated with a bright yellow glaze Link to Canary Yellow

  • CHILDREN’S POTTERY MUGS & PLATES:

Mugs and plates made for Children to use daily from the first half of the 19th century. There were often given as presents to deserving children of the time and are made from various types of pottery. The chief being Creamware, Pearlware and Canary Yellow. Link to Children’s Mugs and Plates

  • CHILDREN’S TOYS:

Toys made in various bodies either of animals or copying tea and dinner ware off the period. They tea and dinner ware is usually made with the same quality as the full sized versions. Link to Children’s Toys

  • COW CREAMERS:

Creamware and Pearlware pottery cows with, milk maids, calfs or on their own made from about 1770 into their heyday at the beginning of the 19th century and tailing off into Victorian Staffordshire at the end of the 19th century Link to Cow Creamers

  • CREAMWARE:

Creamware is a cream-coloured, refined earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body, known in France as faïence fine, in Germany as Engels porselein and Italy as terraglia inglese. It was created about 1750 by the potters of Staffordshire, England, who refined the materials and techniques of salt-glazed earthenware towards a finer, thinner, whiter body with a brilliant glassy lead glaze, which proved so ideal for domestic ware that it supplanted white salt-glaze wares by about 1780. It was popular until the 1840s. Link to Creamware

  • LUSTRE POTTERY:

Lusterware or Lustreware (respectively the US and all other English spellings) is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence. It is produced by metallic oxides in an overglaze finish, which is given a second firing at a lower temperature in a “muffle kiln”, or a reduction kiln, excluding oxygen. The discovery of this technique can be traced back to the 7th century A.D. when Islam emerged in the city of Mecca. Lustreware became popular in Staffordshire pottery during the 19th century, where it was also used by Josiah Wedgwood, who introduced pink and white lustreware simulating mother o’ pearl effects in dishes and bowls cast in the shapes of shells, and silver lustre, introduced at Wedgwood in 1805. In 1810 Peter Warburton of New Hall patented a method of transfer-printing in gold and silver lustre. Sunderland Lustreware in the North East is renowned for its mottled pink lustreware, and lustreware was also produced in Leeds, Yorkshire, where the technique may have been introduced by Thomas Lakin.Link to Lustre Pottery

  • MOCHA & SLIP DECORATED POTTERY:

Either a creamware or pearlware, later a whitewall body decorated with slip, generically referred to as mochaware. Mostly used for domestic wares from the late 18th century up until the early 20th century. Late pieces are often engraved with the Customs and Excise mark guaranteeing the pint and half pint quantities. Link to Mochaware

  • OTHER CERAMICS:

This section includes Agateware, Jackfield black, Drabware and all ceramics that do not fit in with other categories. Link to Other ceramics

  • PEARLWARE POTTERY:

Pearlware started around 1779. Pearlware is distinct from creamware in having a blue-tinged glaze produced by the use of cobalt and a body somewhat modified to produce a ware that was slightly greyish in appearance. Pearlware was developed in order to meet demand for substitutes for Chinese porcelain amongst the growing middle classes of the time. By around 1808 a fully whitened version of creamware (known as White Ware) was introduced to meet changing market demand. Link to Pearlware Pottery

  • 18th CENTURY POTTERY FIGURES:

These are figures made out of different types of body in the 18th century. Creamware and Pearlware decorated either under the glaze with high fired enamels or by using coloured glazes like the figures by Ralph Wood in Staffordshire. Link to 18th Century Pottery Figures

  • EARLY 19TH CENTURY POTTERY FIGURES:

These are Staffordshire figures made out of different types of body, Creamware and Pearlware in the early part of the 19th century. They are usually decorated with enamels over the glaze. Link to Early 19th Century Pottery Figures

  • VICTORIAN STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURES:

Victoorian Staffordshire figures are a type of popular pottery figurine made in England from about 1837 to 1900 and were produced by small potteries and makers’ marks are generally absent. Most Victorian figures were designed to stand on a shelf or mantlepiece and are therefore only modelled and decorated where visible from the front and sides. These are known as ‘flatbacks’. Link to Victorian Staffordshire Figures

  • PRATTWARE POTTERY:

Prattware pottery is a generic name given to pottery decorated with high fired enamels under a glaze, usually pearlware. Because of this the colours are often a bright as the day the object left the kiln Link to Prattware Pottery

  • SLIPWARE AND COUNTRY POTTERY:

Slipware is pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the leather-hard clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing. Slip is an aqueous suspension of a clay body, which is a mixture of clays and other minerals such as quartz, feldspar and mica. The slip placed onto a wet or leather-hard clay body surface by a variety of techniques including dipping, painting, piping or splashing. Principal techniques include slip-painting, where the slip is treated like paint and used to create a design with brushes or other implements, and slip-trailing, where the slip, usually rather thick, is dripped, piped or trailed onto the body, typically from some device like the piping bag used to decorate cakes. Country pottery refers to utilitarian pottery produced without the refined techniques of the established potteries. Link to Slipware & Country Pottery

  • STIRRUP CUP:

A stirrup cup is a “parting cup” given to guests, especially when they are leaving and have their feet in the stirrups. It is also the traditional drink (usually port or sherry) served at the meet, prior to a traditional foxhunt. The term can describe the cup that such a drink is served in. They come in different bodies but the ones on my website are usually of creamware or pearlware of the early 19th century. Link to Stirrup Cups

  • CONTINENTAL SALTGLAZE STONEWARE:

Mainly German salt glazed stoneware, Raren or Westerwald. Salt-glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery, usually stoneware, with a glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process. Sodium from the salt reacts with silica in the clay body to form a glassy coating of sodium silicate. The glaze may be colourless or may be coloured various shades of brown (from iron oxide), blue (from cobalt oxide), or purple (from manganese oxide). The earliest known production of salt glazed stoneware was in the Rhineland of Germany around 1400; it was effectively the only significant innovation in pottery of the European Middle Ages. Initially, the process was used on earthenware. By the 15th century, small pottery towns of the Westerwald, including Höhr-Grenzhausen, Siegberg, Köln, and Raeren in Flanders, were producing a salt-glazed stoneware, with the Bartmann jug a typical product. In the 17th century, salt glaze gained popularity in England as well as in Colonial America. Westerwald Pottery was characterized by stamped medallions and the use of a cobalt oxide based colorant for decoration. Production of salt glaze pottery in Westerwald ceased because of environmental considerations in 1983. Link to Continental Saltglaze Stoneware

  • ENGLISH BROWN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE:

In the UK during the 17th century and 18th century, brown salt-glazed stoneware was produced in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, London and Staffordshire. A significant English manufacturer of salt glaze pottery was John Dwight at the Fulham Pottery, which he founded in 1672. In a related patent application, which was granted in 1671, he also claimed to have “discovered the mystery of transparent earthenware commonly knowne by the name of porcelaine or China and Persian ware.” By the 1800s Lambeth in London had become a centre for the production of salt glaze stoneware, and most especially after the establishment of Doulton and Watts Pottery, which later became Royal Doulton. Link to English Brown Saltglaze Stoneware

  • ENGLISH WHITE SALTGLAZE STONEWARE:

A fine white salt glazed stoneware was produced in Staffordshire from about 1740 until the end of the 18th century. It can be decorated with enamels and this process was carried out both by the potter but also by small outside decorating factories at the time of potting and also later. Link to English White Saltglaze Stoneware

  • WEDGWOOD POTTERY:

This should need no introduction. Wedgwood, first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd, is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery, “a firm that has done more to spread the knowledge and enhance the reputation of British ceramic art than any other manufacturer”,[3] exporting across Europe as far as Russia, and to the Americas. It was especially successful at producing fine earthenware and stonewares that were accepted as equivalent in quality to porcelain (which Wedgwood only made later) but were considerably cheaper. Link to Wedgwood

  • COMMEMORATIVE:

Ceramics made to commemorate a historical event or person.

  • AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE AND HISTORICAL:

Mainly pottery made in England for export to America decorated with an American theme or commemoration. Link to American Commemorative & Historical

  • BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE AND HISTORICAL:

Pottery, porcelain and reverse prints on glass commemorating historical, royal and religious people and events. Link to British Historical & Commemorative

  • PORCELAIN:

 

  • 18th CENTURY PORCELAIN

English porcelain produced by Worcester, Caughley, Lowestoft, Bow, Derby and the Staffordshire potteries in the 18th century. Link to 18th century 

  • 18th CENTURY PORCELAIN FIGURES:

English porcelain figures produced by Lowestoft, Bow, Derby and the Staffordshire potteries in the 18th century. Link to 18th century Porcelain Figures

 

  • ORIENTAL PORCELAIN:

Porcelain produced in China, Japan and South East Asia. Link to Oriental Porcelain

  • PORCELAIN ANIMALS AND FIGURES:

This is mainly porcelain animals and figures produced at all the main factories in the early 19th century. Link to Porcelain Animals and Figures

  • CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN:

Porcelain mainly hard paste produced on the continent. Link to Continental Porcelain

  • NON CERAMIC:

 

  • ENAMELS:

Enamel boxes and plaques made for the most part in Bilston, South Staffordshire, also later copies from France etc. Link to Enamels

  • GLASS:

18th century English and Continental drinking glass and some later glass. Link to Glass

  • NON CERAMIC ITEMS:

Treen, horn, metalware and other mediums. Link to Non Ceramic

  • NEEDLEWORK:

Early needlework and samplers. Link to Needlework

  • REVERSE PRINTS ON GLASS:

Prints stuck on the back of glass coloured from behind and framed from about 1760 to about 1820. Commonly referred to as glass pictures. Link to Reverse Pictures on Glass

  • WATERCOLOURS & OILS:

Pictures of both oil and watercolour dating from about 1780 to 1850 of a naive type. Link to Watercolours & Oils