Early white ironstone was highly vitrified china, made to be sturdy and to resist chipping. It was originally the same earthenware body as used for transferware. When imported to the USA, the practical people of the times eschewed the fancy romantic patterns of transferred designs, preferring instead the plain white pieces. Gradually, different shapes of plain white ironstone were produced to broaden its appeal, giving different character to the white wares of the many Staffordshire and American potters. Many American potteries were started by emigrants who had trained in the Staffordshire area. Early American wares are also prized as high quality earthenware.

Item #	Description	Price
Click for more detail... 10046	White Ironstone Soap Slab Here is a heavy white ironstone soap slab, 5 inches by 3 1/2 inches. It is a heavy and solid item designed to hold a soap bar near a sink. The inner ridges act as drainers. It is marked with the pottery initials, W.E.P. & Co. There are no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration.	Your Price: $25.00

Bowls

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Click for more detail... 10073	J. Clementson Staffordshire White Ironstone Water Basin Bowl, PRAIRIE SHAPE, c. 1861 Presented is a large water bowl or basin measuring 13 inches wide by 4 3/4 inches tall. It was once used for washing with a large water pitcher before the popularity of indoor plumbing. We are offering the matching pitcher in a separate offering. The embossed design is Prairie Shape. It was made in the J. Clementson pottery who registered it in 1861. This is one of the many wheat patterns produced by the Staffordshire potters during the 1860 decade and targeted toward the American bread basket. Condition is excellent. It is free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restorations.	Your Price: $225.00
Click for more detail... 10092	Large Staffordshire Meakin White Ironstone Basin Bowl, c. 1880 Offered is a very large white ironstone Staffordshire bowl or basin that once was paired with a large pitcher but is offered alone. It measures 15 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches tall. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations. Designs of this period often had angular or square elements. This one has an angular element on the sides. They are straight from the rim until a definite cant takes the bowl directly to the base. It also has a prominent border on the rim. The sides have four distinct panels. Toward the bottom of each panel at the angle, embossed foliates decorate the side. The basin or bowl bears the backstamp of the Meakin pottery and dates to the latter part of the nineteenth century, probably the 1880s.	Your Price: $125.00
Click for more detail... 15005	E. Clarke Staffordshire White IronstoneToddy Bowl This lidded white ironstone small punch bowl is designed for service hot drinks. It is called a toddy bowl. Measurements are 10 inches wide across the scrolled handles by 8 inches tall. This plain shape has lettle embellisment. The round finial comes to a point, and the handles are classically scrolled. It is in great shape, free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restoration.	Your Price: $300.00

Compote

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Click for more detail... 13010	Great Large White Ironstone Compote, Embossed Floral Interior Here is a super nineteenth century Staffordshire white ironstone compote measuring 10 1/2 inches wide by 6 1/2 inches tall. It is smooth on the exterior with the exception for bordering on the pedestal. The rim is elaborately scalloped with alternating curved dimensions. The interior is quite unique. The embossing is that of daisy type petals, alternating is size. It is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks. Fine crazing is present. It bears an imprinted mark, but unfortunately it is not decipherable. This is definitely a nineteenth century compote, beautiful and unique.	Your Price: $300.00

Ladles

Item #	Description	Price
Click for more detail... 2054	Nineteenth Century Staffordshire Plain White Ironstone Sauce Ladle Here is a small white ironstone sauce ladle in a plain pattern. It would go with any white ironstone sauce tureen. The bowl is 2 1/2 inches wide; the handle is 5 1/2 inches long. It is in excellent condition, free of chips and cracks. It is bright white with undertones of blue. The final picture shows it with a sauce tureen.	Your Price: $55.00
Click for more detail... 10061	Gothic White Ironstone Soup Tureen Ladle, c. 1840 Here is a gothic shaped nineteenth century white ironstone soup ladle. Rather than round, the bowl part is octagonal and measures 4 1/3 inches wide, and the handle is 10 inches long. It is crazed. The back side shows a glaze irregularity where the item came into contact with something else in the kiln. At the same place is a very tiny chip as pictured. The handle has a fleur de lis design that is often seen on gothic pieces. Several potters made pieces of this shape in the 1840s, the decade of this item's production. This is unmarked, so we cannot identify the specific potter. It would go very well with any octagonal soup tureen.	Your Price: $125.00
Click for more detail... 10300	Staffordshire White Ironstone Sauce Ladle, Elaborately Embossed This Staffordshire white ironstone sauce tureen ladle measures 2 1/2 inches across the bowl. The handle is 6 inches long. It is in great shape, free of all chips and cracks. The handle has elaborate scroll and bead embossing. It would look great with any nineteenth century white ironstone sauce tureen.	Your Price: $75.00
Click for more detail... 1924	White Ironstone Sauce Ladle, Blue Band with Gold Embellishments Here is a sauce ladle in white ironstone. Inside the bowl, which measures 2 7/8 inches wide, is a band of dark blue. The rim also has banding in gold. The handle is 5 inches long with fan-like embossing at the end and gold embellishments which show some wear. It is free of chips and cracks.	Your Price: $25.00
Click for more detail... 10098	Staffordshire Nineteenth Century Rope & Ring White Ironstone Mid-Size Ladle The white ironstone Staffordshire ladle presented measures 3 1/2 inches across the bowl and has an 8 inch handle. It is in excellent condition, free of all chips and cracks. It is crazed. The only embossing exists on the top of the handle where a rope and ring or cable and ring design decorates it. The ladle is unmarked. We can date it by the embossed design which is typical of Staffordshire wares of the 1870 - 1880 decades. The ladle is sized midway between soup and sauce tureen size. It would be great as a ladle for a toddy bowl.	Your Price: $99.00

Molds

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Click for more detail... 2290	White Ironstone Food Mold, Grape Cluster This white ironstone pudding mold or food mold measures 6 1/2 inches long by 2 3/4 inches tall. It is in excellent condition, free of flaws. The highly reverse-embossed design is that of a grape clustre, grape vine, and grape leaf. Thumbprint designs line the sides. This mold is appropriate for use or display.	Your Price: $75.00

Pitcher and Bowls

Item #	Description	Price
Click for more detail... 16030-1203206411	White Ironstone Nineteenth Century Pitcher and Bowl The white ironstone pitcher and bowl presented is in excellent condition, crazed but free of all chips and cracks. It is unmarked. We cannot be sure of its origin; it could be Staffordshire or American. Its tone is a true white with bluish undertones. The pitcher measures 11 inches tall. The bowl is just shy of 13 inches wide by 4 inches tall. It is nice to be able to offer a matched set. This set is very plain. By its design, we would date it to the 1870 decade.	Your Price: $250.00

Pitchers

Item #	Description	Price
Click for more detail... 10017	Staffordshire White Ironstone Tall Pitcher, Serpent Handle Here is a fairly large Staffordshire white ironstone pitcher, just shy of 11 inches tall when measured at the handle. Most interesting is the sharply embossed serpent shape on the top of the handle. Note also the prominent spout and bordering at the neck. Condition is excellent. There are no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations. The vessel is unmarked. By its look, feel, and potting characteristics, we would date it to the early part of the nineteenth century.	Your Price: $150.00
Click for more detail... 10376	Rare Edward Clark White Ironstone Pitcher, FOLIATES This lovely white ironstone pitcher measures 12 inches tall. It is in excellent condition, free of all chips and cracks. Glaze is shiny, and no crazing is evident. The embossing is very distinctive. Note the elaborate foliate shapes under the spout. It actually looks more like a large flying insect including both head and antennae than it does leaves. Love it! Foliates also appear at both ends of the handle which also has a prominent fruit thumb rest. This pitcher was shown in Volume 11, No. 1, page 9, of the White Ironstone Collector's Association (WICA) publication as a design that had not been seen before. We are happy to be able to offer it to you. It dates to the 1850 - 60 decades and was made in the Edward Clarke pottery. It bears the pottery's backstamp and imprinted mark.	Your Price: $250.00
Click for more detail... 10341	J. Edwards Staffordshire White Ironstone Tall Pitcher, LION'S HEAD The tall Staffordshire white ironstone water pitcher presented measures 12 1/2 inches tall. The style is rather plain with embossed foliates under the handle and a lion head thumb rest. It was made in the pottery of John Edwards and bears the pottery's backstamp. It dates to the latter part of the nineteenth century. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations. One glaze flaw exists on the side and has been shown in close-up. It appears as a small area of roughness. Because of this flaw, the price is lower than would normally be charged for an ewer like this.	Your Price: $100.00
Click for more detail... 11013	Staffordshire Octagonal White Ironstone Gothic Tall Pitcher This tall water pitcher measures 13 inches tall. It is free of all chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restoration. The underside is marked only with hand-painted English numbers. The handle is gothic in shape, and it has eight panels on the sides. Usually, nineteenth century water pitcher, paired as this one once was with a large basin, are 12 inches tall, so its nice to find one of this height. It is quite heavy, weighing 5 pounds before taking into account any packing materials, so it will ship as 8 pounds.	Your Price: $125.00
Click for more detail... 10025	Bridgwood & Clarke Staffordshire White Ironstone Tall Pitcher, DRAPED LEAF SHAPE Here is a gorgous, large white ironstone water pitcher measuring 13 inches from base to the top of the thumb rest. It is in excellent condition, free of all chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restoration. The glaze shows a few lines, but nothing that penetrates. The shape is very graceful. Draped leaves decorate the pitcher under the handle and the spout. The middle part is quite slim with a beautifully curved spout. It bears the backstamp of Bridgwood and Clarke, c. 1860.	Your Price: $275.00
Click for more detail... 15015-1201565524	Goodwin White Ironstone Tall Pitcher, ROPE DESIGN This white ironstone pitcher measures 11 1/2 iches tall to its highest point. It is perfectly plain except for a very plain foliate design under the handle and a rope design at the top of the handle. It was made in the Goodwin Brothers pottery, East Liverpool, Ohio, and dates to the 1872 - 1900 period. It is in fine condition, free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restoration.	Your Price: $150.00
Click for more detail... 160041	Rare White Ironstone Staffordshire Tall Pitcher, ARCADED PANELS, c. 1850 This beautiful, highly embossed tall pitcher measures 12 inches tall. It was made in the pottery of John Venables. The shape dates to the early 1850s. It is marked with the pottery's British arms backstamp. It is entitled Arcaded Panels. Note the paneling around the sides and the super foliate and berry embossing beneath the handle. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, or stains. Even, tight crazing is evident.	Your Price: $350.00