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Piers Wedgwood, who devoted his working life to the ceramic and decorative arts of the Wedgwood Brand as its international ambassador and keeper of the legacy of his fifth great-grandfather,…
Thank you to donors, Robert Conn, Frank Davenport, Peg Mauzy, Connie Rogers, Michael Sack, Judie & Dick Wagner, Loren Zeller, Richard and Cher Zillman. Special thank you to Leslie Bouterie, Frank Davenport and Michael Weinberg for promotion and sales, exceptionally well done. And thanks to…
An important collection of many pieces of British transferware from the Hickman estate was sold on December 12 and 13 by David Lay Auctions, The Penzance Auction House, Cornwall.…
The Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke-on-Trent is threatened with budget reductions. Support by December 20 for the museum is requested.
What a facelift! The front Church Street Entrance of the Spode Works has been painstaking restored by Stoke Council to a very high standard. The Gates and Rubbing Stones are original Spode c1800. The sign above the gates was designed by Harold Holdway and…
Dick Henrywood is cataloging all known British views on transferware. He is missing several images for illustration. Please review the linked list, and contact Dick if you can provide images or news of where the images of any of the listed patterns may be found.
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English ceramicist Phil Eglin utilizes images of blue and white transferware pieces and turns them into hand-made pieces as he interprets them. The result is a fresh and interesting look at familiar patterns. Exhibition in London June 20 - July 31, 2013. (See examples below.)
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"It is with great sadness that I Inform you of the passing of my mother Vivienne Schulman Manber who always took great joy in her days at The Transfersware Collectors Club. Vivienne passed away on June 3 at home after a lengthy illness. Vivienne had a distinguished 42 year career at the State…
The exhibitions include many spectacular and fascinating transferware pieces. More information.
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It was announced just before Christmas that a judge at the High Court in Birmingham gave a verdict saying that the collection in the Wedgwood Museum, valued at £18 million, could be sold to help cover a £134 million pension deficit stemming back to the 2009 collapse of the Waterford Wedgwood…
With profound sadness, the Transferware Collectors Club announces that on January 3, 2012, veteran transferware collector Hayden Goldberg died in the hospital in Brooklyn. He had been unwell after suffering a stroke last September. Hayden is survived by his partner of 56 years, Curtis F. Brown,…
Artist Jeanne Illenye creates works incorporating Spode and other makers. View the website/blog.
TCC partners with the Winterthur Museum and the Potteries Museum to launch leading edge interactive online exhibition of first period Spode printed ceramics.
You are invited to attend a very special exhibition of Spode Ceramics—from the comfort of your home. A unique Web-based…
Wendy Erich's research into Benjamin Franklin's claim that he invented transferware, funded by a TCC Research Grant.
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Sandie Fowler needs images of tiles for a book she is authoring. Download the list of tiles she needs. Below are some examples:
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Pearlware blue-printed transferwares are sometimes found with ‘filled-in’ enamel colours of plum, yellow, brick-red and green, usually painted on chinoiserie patterns with a distinctive deep cobalt blue background. Often on ale jugs or mugs and less commonly on spill vases; their factory marks…
Pat Halfpenny describes TCC members' recent experience helping the NPS Philadelphia Independence Living History Center Archaeology Laboratory assemble transferware shards and identify patterns.…
Well, maybe not, but certainly this one stands out, for both its exceptional size as well as contents! Thanks to Dennis and Ann Berard for this photo, featuring their lovely grand daughter, Ellie, age nine months (at time of the photo).
The jug is 24" tall & 28" across from spout to…
On Tuesday 9th June 2009, Louis Taylor Fine Auctioneers and Valuers in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, sold the Robert Copeland Attic Collection, most of the items having belonged to his father, Mr A. Gresham Copeland. William Taylor Copeland and Thomas Garrett bought the Spode factory in 1833, and the…
On occasion, a truly wonderful web site comes to our attention. Such is the case with www.ceramicfeeders.com, a site subtitled “Ceramic Infantilia of the 19th Century”. We won’t write a long review; anyone viewing this note can link…
Pot Lids are small glazed transfer-printed earthenware containers, consisting of a base and lid, which were made from the 1840s through the early 20th century (some forms of pot lids may date from the second half of the 18th century). They contained many products, such as ointments, tooth paste…
You may have read of the National Park Service archeological excavations in Philadelphia (examples of recovered shards are shown in "Transferware Serendipity", Summer/Fall 2007 TCC Bulletin), and the considerable number of shards unearthed within the city block which is now occupied by the…
The Independence Living History Center Archeology Laboratory in Philadelphia (part of the National Park Service) has posted images of partially reconstructed pieces of transferware from excavations of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. They have identified numerous patterns (many…
Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, Colonial Philadelphia Porcelain: the Art of Bonnin and Morris, an exhibit of rare American-made underglaze blue porcelain closed June 1, 2008.…
Hundreds of pieces of blue and white china and textiles create a vast mosaic of pattern and colour at the Victoria Art Gallery in the New Year. The exhibition, the first of its kind on such a large scale, will be opened by Sir Peter Blake and runs from 19 January to 30 March 2008 at the Council-…
Friends of the Spode Museum have a Website with up-to-date information on the status of the museum. Contributions can be made through PayPal. www.spodefriends.org.uk | …
The 2007 Eastfield Village Symposium "British Ceramics: The Development of Technical Genius in the British Ceramic Industry -- 1650-1850" (June 22--24, 2007) has run its course. Click here for a…
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