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STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITALITY: "KEPT IN THE BEST STYLE." Title: Staffordshire Hospitality: An Exploration of Staffordshire Transferware Made for and Used by the Hospitality Trade Lecturer: Ben Miller, Assistant Curator of Ceramics, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England Watch Video

This turns out to be an unashamedly blue issue so apologies to collectors of other colours. We have several new items to tempt you, a couple of updates to previous notes, plus a rare fish platter and a fine presentation jug. Read more.

Pots of Orchids: the Spode Bateman Connection, by Pam Woolliscroft

Spring! Time to Get Organized, by Susan Ferguson

Shown is a plate made by C.J. & G.M. Mason (1813-1826) known as Chinese Dragon. For TCC members, this is pattern #18559 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources.

Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Robert Copeland

Spode Transfer Printed Ware 1784-1833, by David Drakard and Paul Holdway

These transferware platters and Benjamin Franklin Staffordshire figure were seen at the Philadelphia Antiques Show during the recent TCC Annual Meeting. Dr. Franklin was Philadelphia’s most famous citizen in America and Europe during his lifetime and long after. It is not known which Staffordshire pottery produced this version of the Franklin figure in the mid-19th century.

Seven superb lectures, the largest ever raffle, and tours of the Winterthur transferware rooms and reserve collection highlighted the Philadelphia 2024 Annual Meeting. Shown is a smattering of the fantastic transferware presented at the meeting’s final event, the Show and Sale.

This lecture by Dr. David Barker is now available for members to view. In this presentation David discusses these printed wares in the wider context of the assemblage and its deposition, and considers what this tells us about the export trade in British ceramics at this time. Members can access the video here.

New classified items both "wanted" and "for sale." See all on the classified page. 

Folio Friday is an opportunity for ceramic enthusiasts to view some of the amazing artwork found within The Minton Archive’s folios. On the first Friday of every month their archive team selects a special piece of artwork from the Minton company catalogue’s Art & Design section and highlights it on this blog. Click and Enjoy!

Judie says, "One of my favorite transferware patterns is "The Milkmaid." To me it embodies 19th century rural England. Probably more myth than reality. The pattern was popular, and it was made by many factories. For example, the Transferware Collectors Club database shows 15 milkmaid patterns made by different manufacturers. Read more on her blog.