SALE British Blue SAUCE TUREEN Acorn & Oak Handles Davenport c.1810-20

Antiques : Pottery : Staffordshire Blue : Transferware

 

This charming little pearlware tureen has beautiful embossed handles in the shapes if oak leaves with a center acorn. The transfer pattern is or a rustic, rural scene with a stooped old man with cane and a woman wearing a hat & apron walk on a path leading to a humble cottage. The foot rim has a beaded border design. The inside of the bowl has a 3/4" border design topped by rim beading over passion flowers and Sweet William or some simple little four-petaled flower. The inside well transfer has a stylized tree, then an Elm. A river is mid-ground with a bridge behind which is castle ruins and a mountain. The bottom has the DAVENPORT impressed anchor Godden Mark 1179a, used subsequent to 1805.

Approx. 8-1/2" (handle to handle) by 4-1/2" and 2-3/4" deep. NO cracks, NO repairs. A faint 1/8" hairline pictured as well as well as a line running down to handle from where the 2 halves were joined, the latter "in the making". Rubbing wear to handles, pictured.

Rcvd. answer re. pattern from The Transferware Collectors Club:Re: Davenport tureen...anyone know the pattern? date? Posted by D... ......... on July 2, (this year), 5:36 am, in reply to "Davenport tureen...anyone know the pattern? date?" 80.189.132.223

This is one of the patterns in Davenport's Rustic Scenes series, produced in the 1820s. Three different plates are illustrated in the two volumes of "The Dictionary of Blue & White Printed Pottery". The second volume brought the number of scenes recorded up to 15 but more have subsequently emerged. Regards D...

Item ID: ST.1