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This Aesthetic Movement tile pattern was registered on November 8, 1881, and is part of the “Children's Tea Party” (TCC name) series produced by T. & R. Boote. Boote was in business in Burslem, Staffordshire, from 1842 until 1906.

This is one of six lectures presented at the 2025 TCC conference celebrated the many Landscapes, Real and Imagined, on British Transferware! This lecture by Dick Henrywood reviewed the history of recording landscape patterns.

Dating from 1865, passenger service was discontinued in 1972. It has been the home since 2006 of long-time transferware researcher, lecturer and author, and TCC member Dick Henrywood and his wife, Melanie. Much more information and photos at https://www.reynardine.co.uk/BowStation/BowStation.html and in Wikipedia.

by Scott Hanson

Several years ago, my then eight year-old neighbor, Millais (Mill) Graham, was digging in his garden and found a tiny shard of transferware. Transferware shards are not particularly rare in this Maine neighborhood of historic houses built between 1820 and 1850. I’ve built a sizable transferware collection based primarily on the patterns identified from the shards found on my property. Read more.

A Transferware Blog by Judie Siddall.

I posted a gorgeous Adams coffee pot on the Transferware Collectors Club Facebook page, and it received a lot of positive responses. Perhaps the bright red transfer or the charming pattern, The Pet, initiated the 500 plus likes. Read more.

Jacob Otte, USA
Abstract:  To systematically document the 19th century ceramics, including British transferware, affixed to the walls of the Shrine of Sunan Gunung Jati, the Muslin saint of Cirebon who is popularly credited with Islamization of West Java in the early 16th century.

Spode Greek by Nicholas Moore

Spode & Copeland:  Over Two Hundred Years of Fine China and Porcelain by Steven Smith

Shown is “Asiatic Plants” made by William Ridgway (& Co.), 1830-1854. For TCC members, this is pattern #4613 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources. There are twelve different patterns from this series in the database.

SAVE THE DATES: The TCC is excited to announce plans for its 2026 England Tour scheduled for June 1-7, 2026. The tour will visit London, York, the famous Newark Fair, and Staffordshire Region Potteries and Museums: Middleport Pottery, Spode Museum Trust, Wedgwood Museum and Factory, and the renown Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Click here for a preview of activities planned for each day.

On the first Friday of every month their archive team selects a special piece of artwork from the Minton company catalogue’s Art & Design section and highlights it on this blog. Click and Enjoy!

Extensive library for sale. See attached list (note, the list will not be updated as items are sold). Contact Dick & Judy Wagner: bygones@frontier.com or 541-756-1506 for availability and to order.