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July 16, 1PM EDT

Speaker: Miranda Goodby

Between c.1850 and 1910 British printed ceramics underwent a huge change from largely conventional floral and landscape designs to self-consciously bizarre and exotic patterns inspired by a variety of sources from Japan to Art Nouveau. Get Zoom link.

A Report on the Transferware Collectors Club Tour to England and the Newark Antiques Fair June 2–9, 2026 by Loren Zeller 

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This charming scene showing several bottle ovens at a historic pottery, like the hundreds that once existed in Staffordshire, England, isn’t exactly what it appears to be. In fact, the design was engraved on a copper plate and bat printed by Paul Holdway in Staffordshire in 1991, as marked on the back.

2019 Paul and Gladys Richards Foundation Research Grant Program Recipient.

George Haggarty, Scotland
Project Title:  A Catalog of Transfer-printed Pottery Produced by Scotland’s East Coast Potteries Prior to 1850 View PDF.

In 2025, Stoke-on-Trent City Council marked the centenary of the City’s status through a year-long programme of cultural events. In conjunction with the exhibition, scholars from China and the United Kingdom were invited to develop these themes further through the international symposium Legacy and Continuity, the essays gathered in this publication both reflect and extend the contributions presented at that event.

In this presentation David discusses these printed wares in the wider context of the assemblage and its deposition, and considers what this tells us about the export trade in British ceramics at this time. Members can access the video here.

A Transferware Blog by Judie Siddall.

I recently purchased a very damaged small teapot with "The Sower" on one side and "The Reaper" on the other. They are part of a series titled "The Progress of the Quartern Loaf." There are six different patterns: the Ploughman, The Sower, The Thrasher, The Reaper, The Miller, and The Baker. 

During the Transferware Collectors Club’s England Tour visit to the Spode Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, TCC members Dina Zuger and Loren Zeller presented a rare Chinese of Rank pattern plate to Michael Escolme, Manager of the Spode Museum, on behalf of Michael Sack, President of the Association of Friends of the Spode Museum (AFOTSM).

LaFayette was invited to the United States in 1824 to be honored as a hero of the American Revolution. The pattern was made by Ralph & James Clews (1814-1834). For TCC members, more can be learned about this pattern by looking at pattern #2074 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources.

Cats love tight spaces. Perhaps this one has gone to an extreme. The cat is Callie, age perhaps 1-½ years. The bowl is by Wedgwood, dates 1883-86, and the pattern is “Seaweed No. 05”.