Flow Blue Black Mulberry Thomas Walker Creamer

Porcelain : Antique : Flow Blue

 

This wonderful Early Paneled Flow Blue/Black Pitcher is attributed to Thomas Walker, 1840s. The pattern name is Flora. There is no makers mark.

This lovely deep flow blue/black, 8 paneled pitcher measures 5 1/2 inches high to the top of the handle and 5 1/8 inches across (from handle to outside of the lip).

In keeping with the 150+ year age and use of this well loved pitcher, the glaze on the inside of the lip has flaked off. The glass-like glaze is about the thickness of a piece of paper. The clay has not been damaged. (See photo 4) The price has been appropriately adjusted to reflect this character mark.

In my search to find the pattern name, I found that Edward Challinor used this mold in the mid 1800s although I did not find a Challinor pattern match to the Walker - Flora pattern.

Some claimed that the "flowing" process was accidental, others that it was the technique occurring when lime or ammonia chloride is added to the kiln and was done intentionally. Either way the degree of flow is hard to control making each piece uniquely beautiful.

Item ID: R309