In the Nineteenth Century, English designs were done by hand, predominantly by illiterate women and children. The designs were transferred from a metal plate to a tissue which was hand-applied to the earthenware body and then fired in a kiln. The transfer process was cost-efficient as compared to hand-painting, making dinnerware affordable to the masses. Earliest patterns mimic pottery designs from China. Mid-Nineteeth Century designs are Romantic in nature. The Aesthetic Period followed the the latter part of the century. Blue transfer was by far the most popular and hence the most prevalent.

Item #	Description	Price
Click for more detail... 9040	Wedgwood Blue Transferware Tile Here is a nineteenth century Wedgwood tile measuring 6 inches square. The floral, foliate and scroll pattern is done in shades of blue ranging from dark to light blue and vivid white. The transfer design is very sharp, and the tile is in excellent condition. It is marked, "Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Etruria.	Your Price: $80.00
Click for more detail... 2072	Ridgway American Historical Blue Transferware Plate, Ruggles House, Hudson River This large blue transferware plate measures 10 inches wide. It is an American historical scene, Ruggles House, Newburgh, Hudson River. This view is part of the pottery's American Scenery series. This view shows a home, Ruggles House, at a particularly beautiful point of the river. The backstamps, both imprinted and transfer, have the William Ridgway initials. This stamps were used from 1830 to 1854. It is in excellent condition, free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restorations. The ironstone body is particularly dense and well potted. Glaze is shiny.	Your Price: $225.00

Bowls

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Click for more detail... 110054	Large , Early, & Rare Staffordshire Blue Transferware Fruit Bowl, Classic Pattern This rare and lovely Staffordshire blue transfer fruit bowl measures 13 inches long by 5 inches tall. The pattern on the interior and exterior is that of moss-like foliates. In the center of the well is the image of a classic vase. Note the three-lobed cut-out design on the sides and on the ruffled top. The handles on each side are nicely embossed. One seldom finds an item as scarce as this in such excellent condition. It has one tiny flake on the underside of one handle, small and insignificant. See the picture. This bowl dates to the 1815 - 25 period. In is marked with an imprint, "Imperial Stone." The imprint is very close to the edge of the piece. We believe the word "China" was therefore omitted from the imprint. Wares marked with the term, Imperial Stone China, are known to date to the 1815 - 25 period.	Your Price: $600.00
Click for more detail... 10099	Ridgway Dark Blue Transferware Staffordshire Pedestalled Bowl, INDIA TEMPLE This gorgeous cobalt blue transferware bowl has a pedestalled base and elaborately decorated rim with both gadrooning and scrolled accents on the white bordered rim. The dark blue transfer scene shows an Asian harbor. It measures 9 1/2 inches wide across the embellished handles and is 4 inches tall. It is in fine condition, free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restoration. Glaze is very shiny and free of scratching. The cobalt coloration on the handles is a hand-painted addition. It was made in the Staffordshire pottery of John and William Ridgway. This early pottery operated from 1814 until 1830.	Your Price: $300.00

Compotes

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Click for more detail... 3073	Magnificent Large Blue Transferware Handled Compote, Rhine This grand handled compote is a large one, 12 1/2 inches wide by 6 1/2 inches tall. The pattern was produced by several potters during the 19th century. This one dates back to the early years of production. It was made in the pottery of John Meir and Son. It dates to the 1837 - 50 period. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations. We like particularly the elaborate intertwined handle. The pedestalled base is nicely paneled - quite a special bowl!!	Your Price: $350.00
Click for more detail... 11007	Adams Blue Transferware Staffordshire Octagonal Compote, ISOLA BELLA, c. 1850 Here is a lovely octagonal blue transfer high compote measuring 11 1/2 inches wide by 5 inches tall. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration. The romantic pattern features a mother and child in a garden setting. The sides have a moss-like pattern with superimposed stylized floral elements. We love the octagonal shape of this vessel. The four wide panels have scenes on the side. It is marked with the pattern name and pottery. Several of the Adams sons took over the pottery during most of the 19th century, so dating it by pottery name does little good. By its characteristics, this piece dates to the 1845 to 1855 period.	Your Price: $300.00

Pitchers

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Click for more detail... 7030	c. 1830 Adams Large Staffordshire Blue Transferware Pitcher, PERSIA Here is a beautiful blue transferware pitcher, 10 1/2 inches tall. We love this particular shape. The Adams pottery used the body for several of its transfer patterns. This particular pattern is Persia. The William Adams pottery produced it during the early decades of its operation, c. 1819 - 1830. The pattern was used later in the century, but this shape was not. Note the graceful handle and prominent spout. It is in excellent condition, free of all flaws. It is marked with the pattern name and pottery initials.	Your Price: $350.00
Click for more detail... 10024	Enoch Wood Staffordshire Blue Transferware Table Pitcher, ABBEY, c. 1874 - 1818 Here is an early Staffordshire table pitcher measuring 10 2/3 inches tall, the size for table use. It was made in the pottery of Enoch Wood, c. 1874 - 1818 and bears the Abbey pattern. The design features gothic ruins along a river. In the foreground, several figures fish from the banks. We love the prominent spout and the scrolling on a stippled ground the decorates the top part of the pitcher. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration.	Your Price: $300.00

Plates

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Click for more detail... 4110	Staffordshire Blue Transferware Child's Motto Plate, George's Fate Here is a small child's plate, 5 inches wide with embossed rose designs on the surround. It bears part of a children's story. In the center is George, who has returned to find his possession gone. Other children look on as they straddle a split-rail fence. It reads, "George ran to the spot, but his fate had been seal'd, for a plough-boy in passing, while George left the field, had carried it of (sic) as his prize." Condition is excellent - no flaws.	Your Price: $85.00
Click for more detail... 6047	Rogers Blue Transferware Dinner Plate, CHINESE PORCELAIN This offering features a large blue transferware plate, 10 inches wide. The pattern is entitled Chinese Porcelain. It bears the mark of the John Rogers and Son pottery, 1815 - 1842. This one is a beauty. Note the highly scalloped rim with white border and gadrooning. The Oriental scene features a stylized pagoda and Chinese junk on the foreground. The chinoiserie style design includes a pagoda in the distance at the top right, tropical foliates, and a sailboat to the left. The surround has scrolling and floral designs. It is in great condition with a very minor flaw on the back. Glaze is entirely shiny.	Your Price: $125.00
Click for more detail... 9026	Clews American Historical Blue Transferware Soup Plate, Hudson River Here is a gorgeous American historical Staffordshire flat rimmed soup plate. It measures a large 10 inches wide and is in good condition, free of chips. It has a colorless hairline on the surround which we show in a close-up. It also has a bit of rubbing on the inner ridge of the surround which we have also shown in close-up. Glaze is very shiny. The scene is one of the pottery's Picturesque Views series and dates to 1813 - 1834. It depicts North Fishkill on the Hudson River. What a carefully potted plate it is! The scene is very sharp and carefully applied to the plate. Linear perspective is an important element of the scene. The viewer sees the scene as if standing on the road. To the right, a cabin appears on a bluff. As the road ahead curves to the right out of sight, two figures appear on the banks of the river. Sunlight directs the eye from that point, to a point on the opposite bank. Mountains appear behind. The surround has the distinctive parrot and flower border of the series.	Your Price: $175.00
Click for more detail... 2062	Stevenson Prized Blue Transferware Plate, Millenium, c. 1810 - 35 Here is a plate in a pattern that is treasured by many, Millenium. The name, a misspelling of Millennium, signifies the biblical prophesy of the thousand-year reign of peace and prosperity. The design includes a bible opened to the prophesy, Isaiah, Chapter XIV. The images include the all-seeing eye of God at the top surrounded by fruit and flowers - images a plenty. A prominent zigzag pattern separates the surround from the well. There, the central image is that of a child who is yoking a lion. The peaceful scene includes a resting lamb, goat, panther, cow and fox. At the bottom is a figure in prayer along with the words, "Give us this day our daily bread." It measures 9 inches wide and is in excellent condition, free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restorations. It was made in the pottery of Ralph Stevenson which operated from 1810 to 1835.	Your Price: $200.00
Click for more detail... 2070	Davenport Large Blue Transferware Plate, Swiss Lake & Village This blue transfer plate measures 10 1/2 inches wide. It is approaching the size of a charger. The pattern is entitled Swiss Lake and Village, a design made by the Davenport pottery. It bears the pottery's name and imprinted anchor backstamp. It dates to 1836. Condition is excellent. There are no chips,cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations. Some utensil marks can be found with close examination, but they do not detract from its beauty.	Your Price: $145.00
Click for more detail... 2077	Darling Little Edwards Blue Transferware Toddy Plate, Corinth This pretty little plate is ten sided. The pattern is Corinth, a romantic design featuring classic images of a pillared building, arches bridge, and mountainous setting. The surround has a pleasing design that radiates and has the appearance of splashing water with floral images superimposed. The plates measures 4 1/2 inches wide and stands 3/4 inch tall. Because of the height, it displays well on a wall with the surround dimensionally framing the interior scene. It was made in the James Edwards pottery whose imprinted backstamp is evident. This pottery operated from 1842 to 1851. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations.	Your Price: $75.00
Click for more detail... 10093	Ralph Stevenson Early Staffordshire Dark Blue Transferware Plate, PALESTINE Presented is an early, grotto-style colbalt transferware plate, 8 1/2 inches wide. The potter is Ralph Stevenson whose firm produced wares from 1810 to 1832, making this an early plate indeed. The oriental pattern shows a grotto view of three figures beside an arched and angular foot bridge. Behind is a pagoda and tropical foliage. Draping willow branches and palm tree fronds frame the scene. The plate is in excellent condition, free of all chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restorations. Glaze is extremely shiny and free of utensil scratching. It is marked with the R. Stevenson backstamp.	Your Price: $150.00
Click for more detail... 10102	Early Davenport Pearlware Blue Transfer Plate, HIGH BRIDGE, c. 1793 Here is a wonderful and early blue transferware Staffordshire plate. It was made in the Davenport pottery and dates to 1793 to 1810, a very old piece of transferware. Condition is beyond excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, restorations, or utensil scratching. Glaze is entirely shiny. The well is completely flat, and the surround is raised, standing 1 1/4 inches. It might be a flat soup plate, or it might be a plate with a particularly high surround. At any rate, it would make a particularly dramatic presentation on a wall because of the dimensional aspect of the surround. The subject matter involves three figures on a walled deck overlooking a river. A flat, high bridge spans it, connecting a an Oriental building on a high bluff with the other side. The surround has fabulous images which frame the scene grotto style. They include a waterfall, a bluff, fruit, flowers, and foliates. It is marked with the Davenport imprint and the Davenport anchor.	Your Price: $175.00
Click for more detail... 10355	Riley Dark Blue Historical Transferware 9 Inch Plate, KINGSWESTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE His beautiful 9 inch plate features a British manor house, Kingsweston, Gloucestershire as it appeared in the early 1800s. Interestingly, the house still exists and is available to rent for weddings and other events. It was made in the pottery of John and Richard Riley whose potteries operated from 1802 - 1828. It is in great condition, free of all chips and cracks. Glaze is entirely shiny and free of utensil scratching. On the back, there is a short line in the glaze only. It does not permeate the plate. The plate bears both the imprinted Riley stamp and a transfer stamp giving the name of the abode.	Your Price: $225.00
Click for more detail... 10140	Phillips Staffordshire 10 1/2 Inch Blue Transferware Plate, PARISIAN, c. 1838 - 48 The large dinner plate presented in blue transfer is entitled Parisian. It measures 10 1/2 inches wide. The potter is George Phillips whose Staffordshire firm operated from 1838 to 1848. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration. We have six matching plates, so if you want multiples, contact us please.	Your Price: $125.00