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Single-Chambered Muffle Kiln
The enamel single-chambered muffle kiln at Gladstone Pottery Museum
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
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Providence, RI October 21, 2018 - At the 2018 Transferware Collectors Club Annual Meeting, TCC Database General Editor Connie Rogers announced an important milestone achieved in September. Thanks to a team of dedicated volunteer Pattern Editors, the club's Database of Patterns and Sources now…
Paul Barker has been collecting Victorian bottles and pots for many years. He started with the relatively common Thomas Holloway pots, the Clarke's pots and the Poor Man's Friend pots from Dr. Roberts. Following his visits to specialist regional bottle fairs, he was able to find a few of the…
View Antiques Roadshow video of a rare Liverpool jug "A North View of Govr. Wallace’s Shell Castle & Harbour North Carolina”. Valued by the Roadshow appraiser at $8,000-$12,000, with only one other documented example known. Thanks to TCC members Cerelle Bolon and Loren Zeller. …
August and September 2018
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Download Gladstone Bottle flyer (pdf size too big to upload to file browser) **
New book:…
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois: Through August 30, 2018
The exhibition centers on Chinese blue and white porcelain collected and emulated around the world. Potters around the world attempted to mimic the…
April 2, 2018 - January 6, 2019
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library More information. (Link not available) **
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Montpelier announces its 2018 Excavation Expedition and Other Programs. More information.
Photo-opportunity: Photographers are welcome to come to the opening night of the exhibition on Friday 18 January at 5.30pm, (speeches at 6.30pm), when the artists and Deirdre McSharry will be present. Sir Peter Blake will be available for interview strictly on an appointment…
12 January - 11 March, 2018
Ceramics are rarely confrontational, but the pugnacious mugs, jugs and plates in Pots with Attitude: Satirical and Political Prints on Ceramics, a display at the British Museum, are exceptions. Here, utilitarian creamwares and pearlwares are transformed…
For four decades, the Annual Series of Early American Trades and Historic Preservation Workshops has offered workshops and symposia in the traditional trades and domestic arts. The goal is to maintain the highest educational standards, with instructors who are leaders in their…
The new year brought new outreach opportunities for the TCC. In January, 2018 the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) held its annual conference in New Orleans, and with the endorsement and encouragement of the Board, the TCC actively and successfully participated in several facets of the…
The Spode Museum Trust has informed us that work on the new frontage is now complete and that the museum, art gallery, shop, and tearoom are open for business Wednesday - Sunday 10:30 am-4 pm. The excellent improvements can be seen in these before and after photos. The shop, located in Stoke-on-…
The second generation of the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources was launched during our meeting in Charlottesville. Get more information.
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Thanks to Loren Zeller for 12 years of exemplary service as TCC President! We welcome Scott Hanson as our new president. Watch for a Special eNews with much more information.
Helen Hallesy, UK
Study Title: Swansea Commemorative Pottery: Politics, Reform, Royalty, Wars
Loren Zeller, USA; Richard Halliday, UK
Study Title: The Chinoiserie Invasion: British Transferware in the…
APRIL 20–21, 2017
An important part of Britain's ceramic heritage, a black basalt vase made by Josiah Wedgwood, is in danger of disappearing overseas forever unless the money can be raised to save it for the UK. The First Day’s Vase is one of only four pieces that we know for certain were actually made by the…
The Transferware Collectors Club Launches Advanced Version 2.0 of Its Popular Database of Patterns and Sources.
The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC), a non-profit organization based in the US, whose mission is to educate and excite people worldwide about British transfer-printed…
Winterthur Museum and TCC Sponsored Exhibit: Transferware, A Story of Patterns & Color.
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Our sister transferware club, the Friends of Blue, held its AGM and Conference June 22, 2014 at Sharpe's Pottery Museum, Swadlincote in Derbyshire. The meeting feature talks by Dick Henrywood and Trevor Kentish. Members brought pots to display on the "Blue Table" for discussion…
The Spode Museum Trust has announced an expansion of its exhibits and new visitor hours. Read more.
What a facelift! The front Church Street…
The Spode Museum Trust has announced an expansion of its exhibits and new visitor hours. Read more.
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Request for Help with Importers Study
John Walthall, of the Illinois State Museum Research & Collections Center, writes "I am in the process of revising the recently published ebook, Queensware Direct from the Potteries: U. S. Importers of Staffordshire Ceramics in…
2014 Annual Meeting Survey: In January of this year, the TCC conducted a members-only survey via email to better understand member preferences with regards to our annual meeting.…
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