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TCC Members Stick Together
Halfpenny, Pat in Additional Articles and Publications

It was a day of broken dishes, sticky tape, and laughter. In the heart of Philadelphia, the National Park Service Independence Living History Center has an Archaeology Laboratory where millions of pottery fragments are the focus of research, and where visitors are welcome to see the work in…

The Italian Pattern
Halliday, Richard in Richards Foundation Grant Projects

Spode's Italian pattern surely has to be one of the most recognizable and indeed most iconic designs in the history of transfer printed pottery. It is possibly true to say that almost every home, antique shop, antique show and museum around much of the world has at least one example of this…

Transferware Images of Latin America Made by British Factories (1830-1930): the Case of Argentina
Schávelzon, Daniel in Richards Foundation Grant Projects

This research project was made possible, thanks to a grant from the Richards Charitable Foundation for the Research of British Transferware through the Transferware Collectors Club (2014). The aim is to delve into aspects related to this type of non-local production material which was of…

The Transferware Recorder Number Four – Selected Patterns from Literature
Henrywood, Dick in Richards Foundation Grant Projects

Authored by Dick Henrywood, this volume is a first foray away from British views, concentrating this time on patterns related to literature. It covers prose, poetry, novels, plays, and their authors, with Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, William Cowper, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Lord…

The Transferware Recorder Number One – Selected British Views
Henrywood, Dick in Richards Foundation Grant Projects

Dick Henrywood has begun a major new transferware initiative designed to expand into a comprehensive series of reference volumes, essential for collectors, researchers and dealers. The Transferware Recorder: Number One – Selected British Views

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Two Newly Identified American Views on Historical Blue Staffordshire
Goldberg, Hayden in Additional Articles and Publications

This is one of four articles authored by transferware collector and researcher Hayden Goldberg and originally published in The Magazine ANTIQUES. This article appeared on pp. 281-283, January 1984. Courtesy BMP Media Holdings, L.L.C.

Unlocking the Minton Archive Treasure Chest
Zeller, Loren in What's Happening in British Ceramics

Destined for almost certain liquidation, the valuable Minton Archive was saved by the Art Fund with other donors who jointly raised £1.56m to purchase it from WWRD on 31 March, 2015.* The Archive was immediately gifted to the Stoke City Archives ensuring that it would forever be conserved and…

Unlocking the Minton Archive Treasure Chest
Zeller, Loren in What's Happening in British Ceramics
Guardians of Staffordshire’s Ceramic History

Destined for almost certain liquidation, the valuable Minton Archive was saved by the Art Fund with other donors who jointly raised  £1.56m to purchase it from WWRD on 31 March, 2015.* The Archive was immediately gifted to the Stoke City Archives…

Wedgewood & Co marks
Halfpenny, Pat in Additional Articles and Publications

This article was recently published in the English Ceramic Circle's (ECC) Transactions, Volume 31, 2020 and it is made available here with the kind permission of the ECC.

Pat writes, "Many authors have written about Ralph Wedgwood, often dismissing him as a reluctant and inefficient …

Where do Patterns come from? or Who decided Delaware looked like this?
Halfpenny, Pat in Richards Foundation Grant Projects

The plates were presented to the museum in the town of Hanley in1904 by Ralph Hordley. It is admittedly a random assortment of printed pottery but it isn’t what is on the front, but what is on the back of many of them, that provides some insight into the subject. Some of the plates have nothing…

‘Sawney’s Defence’: Anti-Catholicism, Consumption and Performance in 18th-Century Britain
Thom, Danielle in Additional Articles and Publications

This article examines an 18th-century English transfer-printed quart mug, printed with an image derived from a popular anti-Catholic satire from about 1779. The article explores the relationship between object, image and audience, locating the mug within a nexus of Protestant masculine…