Staffordshire transferware sugar bowl in tureen form. Octagonal rounded body (A) sits on a pedestal; two molded applied handles at sides. Conforming domed lid (B) has cutout at one side for spoon and a molded finial on top. Black transfer pattern is a landscape with palatial buildings, trees, vegetation and distant mountains. Border is scroll design with narrow band of quatrefoil flowers and edged with Gothic crockets. Underside marked with pattern name "Missouri" above "B & S." A prominent English registry mark indicates the manufacture date of June 5, 1850.
Glazed soft paste porcelain Gaudy Welsh sugar bowl (A) with lid (B). Handpainted inverted tulips of red and yellow are interspersed with 3 large, dominating deep blue scalloped motifs decorated with copper lustre painted floral decoration. Squat pot-bellied body sits on a low squarish pedestal with scalloped edging. Two molded angular applied handles. Top has round mouth with flared collar extends outward. Domed lid has squarish molded knob finial. Darkened remnant of paper sticker with blurred writing, perhaps "-caster/ --ea set/ --1825."
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Small molded sugar bowl (A) with fitted lid (B), of white-bodied china. Bulbous pear shaped body has leaf molded exterior and four sagging lobes that bulge at the base. Two applied rustic handles. Decorated with dark blue on upper 1/3 of bowl. Gold-painted highlights on one side only, on handles and embossed leaves at sides. On side of body in stamped, gold lettering is: "Souvenir/ of/ Lancaster/ Pa."
Fitted, domed lid (B) is molded with foliate inspiration with rustic handle/finail.
Stamped underneath in gold is a crown over shield witht the monogram of "TGC"(?) The number "12" also stamped in gold.
Provenance
Donor believes this set was purchased at Woolworth's store in Lancaster.
Sugar bowl with lid, hard-paste eathenware has white clay body hand-decorated with cobalt blue. Squat, bulbous body sits on foot ring; pot-belly sides have a large beaded shoulder leading to a narrowed neck and finishing with an outward flaring rim w/ coggled edge. Four or five blue bands painted while on the wheel and remainder painted freehand. Bulbous section alternates with two different leaf designs suspended from the blue-painted shoulder bead. Large round dots are spaced between each leaf. Coggled edge is blue and top of rim has a leaf form painted in two rows. The domed lid has a bee skep finial painted blue, a wide blue strip at botom edge of lid and four leaves in mid-section of same two designs as on bulbous body. Clear glaze over all.
Small "S" impressed underneath at side, perhaps signifying the potter.
Good 3/8" long chip at coggled rim edge showing a very white clay which suggest a later date. Wear and soil at bottom and soil scattered over entire piece. Overall crazing.
Object ID
G.81.7
Credit
Gift of Florence Starr Taylor in memory of Annie Mottern Taylor, Heritage Center Collection
Small cream pitcher of molded white bodied china, dark blue trim around top with gold veining and other highlights. Inverted pear shaped vessel has embossed leaves at sides, four small feet in gold and applied handle. On side of body in stamped, gold lettering is: "Souvenir/ of/ Lancaster/ Pa." (Matching sugar bowl, G.01.35.19)
Stamped underneath in gold is a crown over shield with the monogram of "TGC"(?) The number "4" also stamped in gold.
Provenance
Donor believes this set was purchased at Woolworth's store in Lancaster.
Small creamer, copper lusterware, glaze overall. High foot ring, pot-bellied body with high neck and shaped spout. Applied loop handle. Central band of blue has four orange bullseyes and luster decoration elsewhere except for white on lower half of interior.
Small creamer, copper lusterware, glaze overall. Foot ring, pyriform body rises to a rim a shaped spout. Applied loop handle. Swell of body has a wide mustard band with luster floral and foliate decoration. Copper luster elsewhere except for white on lower half of interior.
Creamer, copper lusterware, glaze overall. Has high foot ring with pyriform body rising to a mouth with shaped spout. Spout has a foliate molded base. Bead-molded band just below rim of mouth. Applied loop handle. Swell of body has triple bands: middle band of blue is flanked by two orange bands. Each has a luster stripe at its center. Additional orange band at neck with central luster stripe. Copper luster elsewhere except for white on lower half of interior.
Creamer, copper lusterware, glaze overall. Has foot ring with a squat globular body rising to a mouth with shaped spout. Spout has a foliate molded base. Applied handle has scroll molding. Molded raised bands on upper third and lower third of body. Central third has a white band with raised floral decoration of various colors. Copper luster over entire body except for this white band and white on lower 3/4 of interior.
Creamer, copper lusterware, glaze overall. Has low pedestal base with a vasiform body rising high to a mouth with shaped spout. Applied handle has scroll molding. Copper luster overall except for lower 2/3 of interior and a wide mustard yellow band at the neck of pitcher. Band is decorated with luster foliate motif.
Large creamer, copper lusterware, glaze overall. Has pedestal base and a pot-bellied vasiform body rising to a mouth with shaped spout. Applied handle is scroll-molded. Copper luster overall except for white lower 2/3 of interior and two exterior bands of blue: a wide band at belly and a narrow one on neck. Both bands decorated with a luster foliate motif. A narrow band of beading edges rim of mouth.
