Staffordshire Soap Box Drainer The white porcelain insert presented is designed for an octagonal soap box, probably a transferware item. Unfortunately we do not have it to offer. The draining insert measures just shy of 5 inches long by 3 1/2 inches wide it is 1 1/2 inches deep. This item is porcelain rather than ironstone. It shows some use rubbing on the corners. The rim also has one tiny glazed-over chiplet, done in the making.
Manufacturer: Staffordshire potter  

Gelson White Ironstone Sugarbowl Lid, EAGLE (DIAMOND THUMBPRINT) SHAPE We love this shape. It is known both as Eagle Shape and Diamond Thumbprint. This is a sugar bowl lid measureing 3 1/2 inches wide. The sides have the thumbprint designs with diamons at the bottom of pattern name. The unique finial is two deagle heads which clutch a shared object between - fabulous shape!

There are no chips or cracks, but under one of the eagle designs is a little firing line, done in the making and no considered damage.
Manufacturer: Gelson, Staffordshire potter  

White Ironstone teapot lid, Plain Looped Design This teapot lid has a looped finial. It is free of flaws and measures 3 1/2 inches wide.
Manufacturer: Staffordshire potter  

Staffordshire White Ironstone Sauce Tureen Lid, WASHINGTON SHAPE This sauce tureen lid is Washington Shape. It measures 6 1/3 inches wide. The interior flange would fit into a space that is 3 1/2 by 5 inches.

Conditionis excellent - no flaws. This was made in either the pottery of John Meir or Powell & Bishop and dates to the 1860 decade.
Manufacturer: Meir or Powell & Bishop, Staffordshire potters  

Rare Ridgway Staffordshire Hexagonal Sugar Bowl Lid, Botanical Finial This six-sided lid is a rare shape. The hexagonal sugar bowl it would fit is also hexagonal and has botanical handles.

It measures 3 3/4 inches wide. It would fit a sugarbowl opening that is hexagonal and measures 3 1/8 inches from one side to the opposing side. Condition is excellent- no flaws.
Manufacturer: Ridgway, Staffordshire potter  

Staffordshire Oval White Ironstone Lid, 6 1/4 by 4 3/4, WHEAT AND HOPS SHAPE Here is an oval Staffordshire white ironstone lid measuring 6 1/4 long by 3 3/4 inches wide. One would think it to be a sauce tureen lid; however, it does not have a cut-out, so it is probably a soap dish lid. It would fit into a space measuring 5 1/4 by 3 3/4 inches.

Condition is excellent - no flaws. This is Wheat and Hops Shape. It is not marked, so I cannot tell you the potter since several made this shape: Meakin, Furnival, Taylor, Cochran, Pearson, Oulsam, and Clementson.
Manufacturer: Staffordshire potter  

Pearson Staffordshire White Ironstone Teapot Lid, LEAF FAN The white ironstone lid presented is Leaf Fan Shape. This shape was also known as Squash Shape. It was made in the E. Pearson pottery and dates to the 1860s. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration.

The lid measures 3 1/2 inches wide. It would fit into a teapot opening that is 2 3/4 inches wide.
Manufacturer: El. Pearson  

Staffordshire White Ironstone Toy Sauce Tureen Lid This little sauce tureen lid was made for the toy or child's sauce tureen. It has pretty foliates under ids oblong finial.

Condition is excellent - no flaws. It measures 3 1/4 inches long. The interior flange would fit into an opening that is 2 1/2 by 1 3/4 inches.
Manufacturer: Staffordshire potter  

T.&R. Boote Staffordshire White Ironstone Sauce Tureen, SYDENHAM SHAPE, c. 1853 This classic Staffordshire white ironstone sauce tureen measures 8 inches wide by 5 inches tall. This classic design has the shape of a compote; however, it is the base of a sauce tureen. Once it has a domed lid, but we cannot offer it.

It was made in the pottery of T.& R. Boote who registered it in 1853. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration. The tureen is also free of crazing.
Manufacturer: James Edwards, Staffordshire potter  

T. R. Boote Staffordshire White Ironstone Sauce Tureen Underplate, ATLANTIC SHAPE Here is an underplate for a white ironstone sauce tureen. The embossed design is Atlantic Shape. It measures 9 inches long by 6 1/2 inches wide. It once held a sauce tureen of the same shape, but we do not have it. The undertray is being offered alone.

It was made in the pottery of T. & R. Boote who registered the shape in 1858 and 1859. It is in excellent condition condition, free of chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, and restoration. It does have crazing but no lines that are deeper than the glaze.
Manufacturer: T. & R. Boote, Staffordshire potters  

Staffordshire Gothic Octagonal White Ironstone VegetableTureen Base The octagonal handled bowl presented is 11 inches wide across the handles. It once had a lid but we can offer only the base. The lid for it would need to be 8 inches wide to fit down itno a raised sides. The flange; that is, the part of the lid that fits down into the bowl to hold it in place would be 7 inches wide.

This tureen was made in the pottery of Anthony Shaw during the 1840 decade. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations. Crazing is present. It has the nice white color with bluish undertones that is so prized from the early era of Staffordshire white ironstone production.
Manufacturer: Anthony Shaw Pottery  

Furnival Staffordshire White Ironstone Open Vegetable Tureen, WHEAT & HOPS SHAPE This large Staffordshire vegetable dish measures 12 inches long. It once had a lid, but we cannot offer it. The embossed pattern of wheat and wheat foliates is very sharp. This is Wheat and Hops Shape. It was made in the Jacob Furnival pottery. The shape was registered in 1875.

Because we do not have the lid, we are offering this bowl at an attractive price.
Manufacturer: Jacob Furnival, Staffordshire Potter  

P. Walker Staffordshire White Ironstone Sauce Tureen Underplate, ATHENS SHAPE Here is an underplate for a sauce tureen measuring 9 1/2 inches long. This is Athens Shape, a design of embossed foliates with floral bud designs on the handles. It was made to be used with a matching sauce tureen and lid. We are offering it here solo.

Condition is excellent - no chips or cracks, some crazing with no utensil scratching on its shiny glaze. It bears the pottery's initials and the English registry mark.
Manufacturer: Podmore Walker & Co.  

Davenport White Ironstone Staffordshire Soup Underplate, SCALLOPED DECAGON, c. 1850 This beautiful underplate or cracker tray was originally paired with a large oval soup tureen of the same shape. We are offering it alone. It measures 14 1/4 inches long by 10 1/2 inches wide. Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration. Glaze is very shiny and free of marks.

The shape is Scalloped Decagon, also called Cambridge Shape. This item was potted during the 1850 decade. Note the elaborate embossing on the loop handles and the irregular scallop shape on the tray. It has a prominent inner ridge to hold the base of the soup tureen. The underside bears the backstamp of the Davenport pottery and the English registry mark as well.
Manufacturer: Davenport  

E. Challinor Staffordshire White Ironstone Sauce Tureen Pedestal Underplate, GRAPE OCTAGON SHAPE We present here a sauce tureen pedestal or underplate measuring 8 1/2 inches wide. It was made in the pottery of E. Challinor and dates to 1845.

This underplate is Grape Octagon Shape. It is the perfect match if you have the Challinor Grape Octagon sauce tureen. Note the crabstock handles, raised center, and sharply embossed grape clusters on the surround. It is marked with the pottery's backstamp.

Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restoration.
Manufacturer: E. Challinor  

Pankhurst Staffordshire White Ironstone Soup Tureen Underplate Cracker Tray, CORN SHAPE This gorgeous white ironstone soup tureen underplate measures 14 inches across the impressive handles. They have bows of corn foliates ending in corn cobs. The central pedestal would hold a soup tureen measuring base 6 1/2 inches wide.

This beauty was made in the Pankhurst pottery and dates to the 1860 decade. It is in excellent condition, free of flaws.
Manufacturer: Pankhurst, Staffordshire potter  

T.&R. Boote Huge Staffordshire White Ironstone Soup Tureen Undertray, 1851 OCTAGON SHAPE This large cracker tray or undertray measures 15 1/4 inches wide. No doubt, the soup tureen it once supported was quite large as well. We are only offering the undertray, however. This is T. & R. Boote's 1851 Octagon Shape. It dates to 1851.

1851 Octagon Shape bears outward and inward turning ogee shapes along with paneling at the inward turns. Note also the graceful handles. The center well measures 8 3/4 inches from one side to the other. We include this measurement in case the viewer is considering this undertray for a different shape of the period. It would go well stylistically speaking with any of the Sydenham type shapes.

It is is super condition. There is one little chip on the underside foot ring as pictured. It is also evenly and finely crazed.
Manufacturer: T. & R. Boote  

Elsmore & Forster Staffordshire White Ironstone Underplate, TULIP SHAPE This Staffordshire white ironstone sauce tureen underplate is Tulip Shape. It measures 9 inches long by 7 inches wide. The pedestal in the middle has a ridge for holding the sauce tureen's base in place. It would hold a base that is 4 3/4 by 3 1/2 inches. The center is raised to form a pedestal for the sauce tureen.

Condition is excellent. It is nicely crazed and free of flaws.
Manufacturer: Elsmore & Forster, Staffordshire potters  

J. Alcock White Ironstone Sauce Tureen Underplate Pedestal, GOTHIC SHAPE The sauce tureen pedestal presented measures 8 1/2 inches across the raised handles. This sauce tureen underplate has an inner ridge to hold an octagonal base measuring 4 inches wide from corner to corner across two opposing angles of the base in place.

It bears the imprinted mark of the John Alcock pottery who produced the Gothic Cameo Shape and dates to the 1840's and 1850's.

Condition is excellent - no chips, cracks, hairlines, stains, or restorations with the exception of a little flake on the foot ring, visible only if the plate is upended. It is shown in close-up.
Manufacturer: John Alcock, Staffordshire potter