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Pottery Recipes Book by Staffordshire Potter Thomas Lakin, by Edward Baines

An Historical Atlas of Staffordshire Phillips, A.D.M. and Phillips, C.B. (editors)

The pattern is known as Gleaners. It was made by Henshall & Co. (1790-1828). For TCC members, this is pattern #947 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources.

A group of TCC members visited the California Department of Parks and Recreation Archaeology Unit laboratory in West Sacramento, California, in 2009. We assisted the state park archaeologists in identifying a wide range of transferware dating from the 1820s, all unearthed from various park sites. Just one of the highlights was an almost complete assembled “Winter View of Pittsfield, Mass” (aka “Pittsfield Elm”) plate.

Swansea’s Printed Wares: A Re-Assessment, by Jonathan Gray

Founded in 1764, the Swansea (later to be renamed Cambrian) Pottery was in production for more than 100 years before closing in 1870.

Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Public & Private Commemorative Printed Wares, by Arleen and Grahame Tanner

Public commemorative pieces are of major political, social, and royal events whereas private commemorative pieces take into the private lives of ordinary members of society, who they were, and what they did.

A Transferware Blog by Judie Siddall.

A few years ago I purchased a partial dinner service called "Zoological Sketches" made by Job Meigh & Son in Staffordshire around 1830. Job Meigh wanted to capitalize on the zoo craze that was sweeping Great Britain after the opening of the London Zoological Gardens in 1828. Read more.

Jeffrey S. Evans and Associates will be holding its Summer Americana Auctions on September 1, 2, 3, and 4. The first day will include a wide variety of transfer-printed wares including assorted colors and Flow Blue, in various forms. There will also be numerous Mulberry ironstone examples from the former collection of Ellen R. Hill, author of the book Mulberry Ironstone: Flow Blue’s Best Kept Little Secret. More info.

This presentation by Miranda Goodby is now available for viewing. Between c.1850 and 1910 British printed ceramics underwent a huge change from largely conventional floral and landscape designs to self-consciously bizarre and exotic patterns inspired by a variety of sources from Japan to Art Nouveau. Members can access the video here.

Hawleys Auctioneers in the UK will be offering for sale an important and extensive collection of Swansea transfer-printed pottery in their September sale. The collection was assembled over a great many years by Mr Williams of Newbury, UK. It includes many favorites such as Women with Baskets, Longbridge, Pulteney Bridge, and more. The collection comprises of both black and blue transferware and has many difficult-to-find named landscape prints. Their catalogue is now live. More info.

TCC Research Grant Project in Indonesia

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC recently launched the online exhibition Beyond Rumi: Sufi Art and Practice. The exhibition uses several images from a survey of the architecturally used ceramics at the mausoleum of Sunan Gunung Jati by TCC-member Jaap Otte, who received a TCC Research Grant for the project in 2021. An exciting example of how the TCC is able to benefit a major museum as well as the general public. For more information about the ceramics of Sunan Gunung Jati visit the exhibition's The Ceramics of Teak Hill.

Alongside the continued enhancement of its online catalogue the Minton Archive website has grown to include submissions from other contributors, deep dives into specific areas of the collection, and updates from special projects. In Depth is where they bring all this together. Click and Enjoy!