The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC) has relaunched three important online exhibition sites with new functionality and content enhancements.
In light of current estimates provided by the federal government that the Covid-19 pandemic could be with us well into the summer or longer, the TCC Board of Directors has voted to postpone the 2020…
2019 TCC Research Grant Recipients
The Transferware Collectors Club, a US-based international non-profit organization dedicated to the study of British transfer-printed ceramics, is pleased to…
……… We make our pots of what we potters are”. Read more and see numerous examples in Dishy News - A Transferware Blog. Thanks to blogger Judie Siddall. Link here.
Providence, RI October 21, 2018 - At the 2018 Transferware Collectors Club Annual Meeting, TCC Database General Editor Connie Rogers announced an important milestone achieved in September. Thanks to…
The Transferware Collectors Club Launches Advanced Version 2.0 of Its Popular Database of Patterns and Sources.
The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC), a non-profit organization based in the US,…
The enamel single-chambered muffle kiln at Gladstone Pottery Museum
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
No two bottle ovens or kilns were the same. Many, almost all of them…
Single-Chambered Muffle Kiln
The enamel single-chambered muffle kiln at Gladstone Pottery Museum
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
(Click on thumbnails to see…
Smoke and the Clean Air Act 1956
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
"This occasioned such immense and constant volumes of smoke, as literally to envelope the whole…
Only 15 of the beautiful TCC 20th Anniversary mugs remain. This may be your last chance to obtain one, or more. Cost is $20 each (which includes shipping and a slight profit to the TCC). Checks only…
TCC President Scott Hanson likes to entertain with his hearth-cooked meals served in the transferware pattern unearthed around his 19th century house in Maine. Most of the transferware is Podmore…
Paul Barker has been collecting Victorian bottles and pots for many years. He started with the relatively common Thomas Holloway pots, the Clarke's pots and the Poor Man's Friend pots from Dr.…
View Antiques Roadshow video of a rare Liverpool jug "A North View of Govr. Wallace’s Shell Castle & Harbour North Carolina”. Valued by the Roadshow appraiser at $8,000-$12,000, with only one…
August and September 2018More information
Download Gladstone Bottle flyer (pdf size too big to upload to file browser) **
New book: Bottle Ovents and the Story of the Final Firing (Link not…
April 2, 2018 - January 6, 2019
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library More information. (Link not available) **
Read about the exhibit in Antiques And The Arts Weekly article, download here. (pdf…
Montpelier announces its 2018 Excavation Expedition and Other Programs. More information.
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois: Through August 30, 2018
The exhibition centers on Chinese blue and white porcelain collected and emulated around…
For four decades, the Annual Series of Early American Trades and Historic Preservation Workshops has offered workshops and symposia in the traditional trades and domestic arts. The goal is to…
12 January - 11 March, 2018
Ceramics are rarely confrontational, but the pugnacious mugs, jugs and plates in Pots with Attitude: Satirical and Political Prints on Ceramics, a display at the British…
Opening April 2, 2018
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
More information at Winterthur’s web site and blog.
The new year brought new outreach opportunities for the TCC. In January, 2018 the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) held its annual conference in New Orleans, and with the endorsement and…
The Spode Museum Trust has informed us that work on the new frontage is now complete and that the museum, art gallery, shop, and tearoom are open for business Wednesday - Sunday 10:30 am-4 pm. The…
The second generation of the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources was launched during our meeting in Charlottesville. Get more information.
Not a member? To access the full data base search, become…
Thanks to Loren Zeller for 12 years of exemplary service as TCC President! We welcome Scott Hanson as our new president. Watch for a Special eNews with much more information.
Helen Hallesy, UKStudy Title: Swansea Commemorative Pottery: Politics, Reform, Royalty, WarsLoren Zeller, USA; Richard Halliday, UKStudy Title: The Chinoiserie Invasion: British Transferware in…
Journey to Staffordshire and London from October 8th to 14th with the Flow Blue International Collectors’ Club and Patricia Halfpenny, English ceramics expert and curator emerita at Winterthur! The…
APRIL 20–21, 2017
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