Vintage Hollinshead & Kirkham Water Pitcher

Collectibles : Pottery : Hollinshead & Kirkham : Victorian : Water Pitcher

 

The delicate sweet flowers on this 13" high pitcher will fill your room with a sense of delight. This beautiful pitcher was manufactured at the beginning of the 1900's and has stood the test of time in an amazing condition. There are no chips or cracks on this water pitcher. The only crazing is on the bottom and there is some rubbing of the gold trim around the edges and the handle. It is a wonderful piece of Victorian pottery, that is highly prized and collectible. The bottom is stamped Hollinshead & Kirkham Tunstall England around the company's unicorn logo, its symbol since 1890.

Hollionshead & Kirkham was an earthenware manufacturer, originally at Bursalem, but in 1876 they took over the Woodland Pottery at Tunstall.There seems to be little information available about the locations of this company until they took over the Unicorn Pottery from Wedgwood & Co in 1890. Certainly produced a similar quality of product to the Wedgwood company they made much of the new premises and incorporated it into their marks including their impressed marks until they launched a new Unicorn trade mark in 1900. The famous Clarice Cliff was a lithographer at Hollinshead & Kirkham for 3 years, she attended evening classes in Tunstall and at the age of 17 went to work for A. J. Wilkinson.

Item ID: ME-2779