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Pastoral/Genre Designs

Unless stated otherwise, all vessels shown are plates.

Clagett's Brewery 18BC38
Peters’ Privy, late 18th to early 19th centuries

Ruth Saloon (18BC79)
Feature 5 - Privy, c. 1829-1837
(Household of Francis Whittington, upper middle class family)

Pearlware common shape cup printed underglaze in medium blue
with central bird image. Continuous repeating floral border,
common 1820-1836. Matching pearlware saucers.  Four
matching saucers and two matching cups in assemblage.
3.75” cup rim diameter, 2.5” cup vessel height.
5.5” saucer rim diameter, 1” saucer vessel height.

Pearlware saucer printed underglaze in blue.  Design based on print
entitled  “Nuneham Courtenay, Bridge and Cottage” by S. Owen
and published in 1811 (shown on far right).  Continuous repeating
floral border of wild roses. Complete example in center is from
a private collecion. This pattern was used by most major and many
minor potteries in the second quarter of the nineteenth century
(Coysh and Henrywood 1982, 1989).

This design, although based on a print of an actual location, is a better fit in
the Pastoral category, for its rural location and fishing theme.

Pearlware London-shape cup and saucer reverse printed in dark blue. Continuous repeating floral border, common 1820-1836.
Printed mark on reverse of saucer with Christmas Eve (pattern name) and manufacturer (Clews).  4” cup rim diameter;  2.5” cup height;
5.75” saucer rim diameter; 1” saucer height. Complete example from a private collection shown on right.

Note impressed asterisk mark in center of printed mark. Also impressed maker’s mark for James and Ralph Clews (1814-1834), Cobridge.

Shown on a 5 inch saucer. Men converse in front of a timbered,
thatched house that has an outside bench and, possibly, an inn sign
projecting from the gable on the right. The fence beyond the house
suggests that this is a public building, probably an inn. The border
is made up of continuous repeated roses. An unrecorded pattern by an
unknown maker, it has a TCC assigned name. Complete example
from a private collection shown on right.

Pearlware small plate underglaze
printed in medium blue.
Continuous repeating floral
border. 6.25” rim diameter,
.75” vessel height.

Pearlware saucer underglaze
printed in medium blue.
Continuous repeating floral
border. One of two matching
saucers from this assemblage.
5.00” rim diameter,
1.00” vessel height.

Pearlware small plate underglaze
printed in medium blue. 
Continuous repeating floral
border.  6.25” rim diameter,
0.5” vessel height.

Pearlware saucer underglaze
printed in medium blue in
Milkmaid pattern.  Continuous
repeating floral border.  One of
two matching vessels from this
assemblage.  This piece is
unmarked, but identical pattern
and border have been found with
the mark of Thomas Rathbone &
Co., 1810 – 1845, Portobello,
Scotland.  5.00” rim diameter,
1.00” vessel height.

Pearlware teapot printed underglaze in medium blue.  Scene
shows a shepherd and sheep in a country estate setting.  
Continuous repeating floral border.  Transferware Collector’s
Club named this pattern “Elegant Shepherd Boy”.
3.5” base diameter.

Pearlware common shape bowl printed underglaze in medium blue.
Scene shows a shepherd and sheep in a country estate setting.
Transferware Collector’s Club named this pattern “Elegant
Shepherd Boy”. 6.75” rim diameter; 3.5” vessel height.

Pearlware London shaped handled cup printed underglaze
in medium blue with pastoral/genre scene of girl and sheep.
Field dots form background.  Continuous repeating floral
interior rim.  No known pattern name or maker. One of a set
of two identical cups from this assemblage. Example of
similar complete image on right from a private collector.

Pearlware London shape bowl printed underglaze in medium blue
with pastoral scene.  Same scene on both sides of bowl.  Continuous repeating floral border. 6.5” rim diameter; 3” vessel height.

Pearlware handled cup printed underglaze in medium blue
with genre scene.  Continuous repeating floral interior rim.
4” rim diameter; 2.5” vessel height.

Pearlware Canova shape handled cup printed underglaze in medium blue. 
One of two matching cups from this assemblage. 3.5” rim diameter; 2.25” vessel height. Middle image is cup interior.
Image on right, a plate, whose pattern is called "The Footbridge," is from a private collection.

London shape pearlware cup with scalloped rim and underglaze printed in medium blue.  (3 views of cup shown here)
5.5” rim diameter; 3.25” vessel height.

Bull's Head Tavern (18BC139)
Feature 9 - Privy
c. 1800 - 1850

Pearlware saucer printed
underglaze in medium blue.
5.25" diameter.

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