Figure group
Figure group produced by Marcia Plumpton.
William Ruscoe was born at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England on 20 June 1904, the son of William Ruscoe, potter. After studying art at Stoke-on-Trent ...
Vase
A Samuel Schellink, Rozenburg porcelain eggshell vase with purple iris design. Signed Rozenburg den Haag 266.
Sam Schellink (1876-1958) was a self-taught artist who began his career in Utrecht. In ...
Vase
Vase with sgraffito and coloured slip decoration of birds in flight. Incised inscription on base: GC 1898.
Vase
Vase designed and made by Zsolnay Pecs in Hungary with rouge flambé and crystalline glazes. Printed factory mark.
Vase
Vase designed and made by Zsolnay Pecs in Hungary, in Art Nouveau style Nabis-influenced decoration.
An Address to the Public in Answer to the Case of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Controversial Proposals
The Trent and Mersey Canal Company has recently issued controversial proposals to build a reservoir and extend a branch canal to Leek.
This pamphlet, sent to Enoch Wood's ...
Portmeirion, 167 London Road, Stoke
This shop is situated in a terraced row of buildings which were built between 1848 and 1878. There is an attached outbuilding which was possibly the coalhouse or privy. The shop is now (June 2024) Alton ...
Potteries Dispensary and House of Recovery statistics - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This Annual General Meeting meeting of the local Dispensary and House of Recovery gave its committee an opportunity to confirm that 3407 patients had passed through its doors since it was founded:
Number ...
Price pledge - document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Those who signed this handwritten pledge vowed never to undercut each other in the competitive pottery markets:
"We whose hands are herewith subscribed do bind Ourselves our Heirs and Assigne in the ...
Price list for Staffordshire earthenware - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Pottery manufacturers would often agree upon a standard lowest retail price for their wares in an attempt to avoid being undercut by their peers.
This price list features costs for a range of wares, ...
Coffee pot
Coffee pot Wedgwood.
Wall Bracket
Wall bracket decorated with a modelled dragon by Robert Wallace Martin, London c.1910.
Artist:
Robert Wallace Martin (British, 1843–1923)
Title:
A Martin Brothers stoneware wall bracket designed ...
Plate
Plate with ‘Viscount’ design on ‘Delta’ shape designed by Kathie Winkle for James Broadhurst & Sons Ltd., Portland Pottery, Victoria Road, Fenton.
Kathie Winkle first started designing for Broadhurst ...
Candlestick
Wedgwood black basalte ‘Triton’ candlestick in the form of a Triton seated on rocks holding a cornucopia forming the candle socket.
Dimensions: 300mm high, 160mm width, 140mm depth.
Casserole dish
‘Sterling’ oven to table casserole dish and lid by Wedgwood.
Peacock figure
Staffordshire pearlware pottery figure of a peacock in bright enamel colours.
Dimensions: 135mm high.
Trio
Cup, saucer and plate ‘crinoline lady’ trio by Alfred Meakin. Marked on base with crown and ‘Alfred Meakin England’.
Alfred Meakin’s Royal Albert, Victoria and Highgate Potteries, Tunstall were founded ...
Coffee pot and mug
‘Pennine’ coffee pot and mug by Wedgwood, manufactured between 1965 and 1971.