Rare 'Salesman's Sample' pottery jug, 'Etruscan Vases' pattern, Dale Hall pottery, c. 1875
Rare 'Salesman's Sample' pottery jug, 'Etruscan Vases' pattern, Dale Hall pottery, c. 1875
Rare Staffordshire Pottery ‘salesman sample’ jug, the classic shape printed and lustred with a group of Greek antiquities.
Attributed to Bates, Walker & Co,
Dale Hall Pottery,
Longport, Staffordshire
Circa 1875.
21x14cm, 6mm thick!
Excellent condition
This pattern is recorded by the Transferware Collectors Club (TCC #6209) – but with a variation to this one, with the same apparent vases but in a different configuration – and the candelabrum has lost all arms except the central.
This pattern began production at the works of Thomas & John Mayer, 1838-42 Longport, Staffordshire. It then continues on for a considerable amount of time through successive firms, all with the same border patterns. T.J.& J. Mayer firm (1842-1855) produced it, as well as Mayer Bros. & Elliott, and Mayer & Elliott, two partnerships lasting 1855-1860, followed by Liddle, Elliot & Son (1860-1870) and Bates, Elliott & Co. (1870-1875). Next is Bates, Walker & Co. (1875-1878) and Bates, Gildea and Walker (1878-1881).
The orange lustre is typical of the 1870’s – 1880’s, and so an attribution to Bates, Walker & Co is highly probable, or to Bates, Gildea and Walker.
The linking detail with these partnerships is their location: the Dale Hall works in Longford, Staffordshire. The Mayer & Elliot partnership of 1858-61 included Dale Hall as a premises, and all subsequent productions of the ‘Etruscan Vases’ pattern were made on this site.A very close example to the pattern titled ‘ETRUSCAN VASES’ , bearing the pattern no. 3048 (possibly over ‘4’, if not ‘X’) was identified as ‘Dale Hall Pottery, Burslem’ by an online seller without any indication of why. The title was a straight-line print, the pattern numbers in red, and there was an impressed ‘P’.