Porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- United States; Pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
Still another Hall mark is a crown-shaped blue stamp with “Hall” and the
name of the set—for instance, “Quadrupeds.” Another, a blue stamp in an
irregular shield, at top and bottom “R. Halls Picturesque Scenery,” in
the middle the name—for instance, “Fulham Church Middlesex.” Another is
an irregular shield, with scrolls with words “Oriental Scenery, I. (or
J.) Hall & Sons;” and also “Italian Scenery, I. Hall & Sons;” and
“Indian Scenery, I. Hall & Sons.” The views, of course, on these pieces
are indicative, respectively, of the marks on the back.
The views of Oriental scenery were taken from the illustrations of
Buckingham’s Travels in Mesopotamia, of the date 1828.
A very interesting mark is a wreath of blue flowers inclosing the words
“Bristol Flowers,” and accompanied either by impressed initials in
capitals, E. & G. P., or an impressed cross like the Bristol stamp. This
mark has been seen only on pure white “semi-china,” decorated in clear
blue, with a design of fruit and flowers in which the passion-flower
predominates.
Still another blue mark, on pieces a trifle lighter in tint, is a fine
spread eagle; above, the word “Ironstone;” below, “Sydenham J.
Clementson.” Chaffers does not mention this name or mark. Jewitt gives
no marks, but says Clementson became proprietor of the Sydenham works
about 1832, and manufactured for the American market.
The impressed mark of “Adams Warranted Staffordshire” appears in a
circle around an American eagle. And the initials R. S. W., in a
graceful scroll with a branch of leaves, appear on many beautiful
American views. I have been told that this was the stamp of R. S.
Warburton, but can give no proof nor further information. It may be the
stamp of some member of the Wood family, so many of whom were potters.
When we examine all these special American marks on English pottery, it
seems odd to read Mr. Jewitt’s statement, that marks were frequently
omitted on the English china sent to America, “on account of the jealous
dislike of the Americans of that day to anything emanating from the
mother country.”
With the pieces of Staffordshire wares bearing American designs, and a
few pieces which cannot be classed elsewhere, I conclude my list.
134. Albany.
View of city of Albany printed in black on plate. Date of view
apparently about 1840.
135. Albany.
View of Albany in bright dark blue. E. Wood & Sons. Marked on back,
“City of Albany State of New York,” and spread eagle with E Pluribus
Unum. In centre the Capitol Hill with old Capitol. On the river a
steamboat and sailing vessels. Cows grazing in foreground. Shell border.
Albany. Capitol.
See No. 166.
Albany. Theatre.
See No. 170.
Albany. Canal.
See No. 171.
Alleghany.
See No. 241.
136. Anti-Slavery Plate.
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