Welcome

Happy Holidays from the Transferware Collectors Club!

Wedgwood 8” x 8” polychrome tile. This charming interior scene pictures a boy, a girl, mistletoe and a Christmas tree. The name of the month, “December,” is printed in the lower right-hand corner of the tile.

H&R Daniel Earthenwares, by John and Jeannette Simpson, with Brian Smith and Bryan Beardmore

The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of British Willow Ware, by Connie Rogers

2014 Paul and Gladys Richards Foundation Research Grant Program Recipient. 

Daniel Schavelzon, Ph.D., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Study Title:  Transferware images of Latin America made by British factories (1850-1900):  the case of Argentina Download PDF. 

All grant applications must be received by May 4 of the year the request is made. Learn more.

Title: Transferware at the End of the World: Archaeology of a 19th Century Shipping Cargo in the Cape Horn Route

Lecturer:  Dolores Elkin. Dr. Elkin is an archaeologist with Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) based at the National Institute of Anthropology.

On Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 Pook & Pook will hold its last auction of the year. Included in this varied assemblage is over fifty lots of Historical Blue Staffordshire. One of the finest pieces in the group is a lovely Historical Blue Staffordshire Arms of New Jersey platter in beautiful condition. Bidding is available on Pook & Pook’s online bidding platform, PookLive (live.pookandpook.com). Read more.

Shown is a plate made by Herculaneum (1796-1840), ca. 1828-1830. It has a molded border. The pattern, “A Chop House," shows three men enjoying a meal at a chop house (men only). For TCC members, this is pattern #17521 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources. The source print for this pattern is included in the entry.

Ceramic artist Forrest Middleton, of FLM Ceramics in Petaluma, CA, creates transfer-printed pottery using tissue transfers from silk screened “plates”, applied directly to the thrown or formed pot or tile. For more information, see the FLM website: http://www.flmceramics.com

Inappropriate Children's Patterns by Judie Siddall

India for Transferware Collectors by Michael Sack 

More information about these articles.

Folio Friday is an opportunity for ceramic enthusiasts to view some of the amazing artwork found within The Minton Archive’s folios. On the first Friday of every month their archive team selects a special piece of artwork from the Minton company catalogue’s Art & Design section and highlights it on this blog. Click and Enjoy!

This time with a predominantly blue issue. We can offer new discoveries, several new items, a new identification, a couple of unusual shapes, and an annoyingly unidentified retailer’s mark.

Judie says, "One of my favorite transferware patterns is "The Milkmaid." To me it embodies 19th century rural England. Probably more myth than reality. The pattern was popular, and it was made by many factories." Read more on her blog.
 

Attention: Seeking additional images and examples of ceramics produced by Enoch Wood & Sons with the impressed importer's backstamp of Peter Morton, a Hartford, Connecticut, importer of English earthenware.  Two different types of backstamps are found on ceramics retailed by Morton during his time in Hartford, examples of which are illustrated above.  The first reads, "Peter Morton Hartford," and the second, "Peter Morton Importer of Earthenware Connecticut."  Please contact Dan Sousa at dsousa@historic-deerfield.org or Neil Ewins at neil.ewins@sunderland.ac.uk with any information. To see larger image click here.