Description:
English pearlware coffeepot with cover decorated with brown transfer prints, which is marked with an "+" over " DAVENPORT" on the base. After a partnership with Thomas Wolfe at the Islington China Works in Liverpool, John Davenport (1765-1848) took over John Brindley's Longport factory in 1784 where he produced both pottery and glass until he retired in 1830. The pottery was continued by his sons, Henry and William, but was in poor financial state under William's son, Henry, finally failing in 1887. The firm seems to have been been meticulous in marking its wares. The standard impressed mark consisted of the name Davenport curving above an anchor, with the name in lower case letters up to about 1815, but thereafter in capital letters. After about 1830, numbers were impressed on either side of the anchor to give the date of potting, such as the "4" and "8" for 1848. A wide variety of printed marks were used after 1830, almost invariably including simply the surname Davenport rather than any identifying initials. The place, Longport, also appears in later marks. The style of the printed cartouches as with the patterns, tended to follow current fashion. Both sides of the coffeepot body have the same image of a girl milking a cow in a country landscape. A milkmaid kneels while milking a cow into a wooden pail. Recumbent sheep look on. There are bands of floral sprays around the recessed domed lid with its mushroom finial, inside and outside of the teapot's shaped collar, teapot shoulder, and flared base; and floral sprays on the shaped spout and coil handle. The Transferware Collectors' Club database calls this pattern "Milkmaid." It is known in overglaze brown enamel and in underglaze blue. Illustrated in WilliamsWeber1978 p.760. This version is almost identical with the version by Spode (Drakard/Holdway1983 p.136 P.702) and, later, Copeland and Garret (q.v.) in both pattern and border. This was in J. B. Morris' collection, #2726.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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