Object Detail
Description
dish and tray, basket and stand, not matching, possibly a marriage, as the stand is larger than the dessert basket and differences in weight and feel of the body suggest a later date for the stand. Earthenware body with lead glaze containing cobalt, ie. pearlware, a pierced basket and stand decorated with an underglaze blue transfer printed pattern, known as Chinoiserie Bridgeless, figures 1, 2 and 3. This is because there is no willow, bridge or birds. A man can also be seen in the doorway at right.
A Willow pattern style design but without the willow tree and bridge, Chinoiserie Bridgeless is a coon pattern with some variants. It was introduced circa 1795-1805 and was produced over a long period. In addition to dinner and dessert wares, a miniature dinner service is known, although without a maker’s mark. Davenport was one of the big four English ceramic firms during the early-mid , alongside Minton, Spode and Wedgwood, and was generally at the cutting edge of design, but not always innovative in terms of materials and techniques. However, the firm left no archive, and in part because it did not pioneer a new ceramic material with which the factory’s name became synonymous (as with Wedgwood with Jasper and Minton with Majolica), and because it left no archive, its importance was largely forgotten until the 1970s.
A Willow pattern style design but without the willow tree and bridge, Chinoiserie Bridgeless is a coon pattern with some variants. It was introduced circa 1795-1805 and was produced over a long period. In addition to dinner and dessert wares, a miniature dinner service is known, although without a maker’s mark. Davenport was one of the big four English ceramic firms during the early-mid , alongside Minton, Spode and Wedgwood, and was generally at the cutting edge of design, but not always innovative in terms of materials and techniques. However, the firm left no archive, and in part because it did not pioneer a new ceramic material with which the factory’s name became synonymous (as with Wedgwood with Jasper and Minton with Majolica), and because it left no archive, its importance was largely forgotten until the 1970s.
Maker and role
manufacturer: Davenport & Co (estab. 1794, closed 1887)
Production place
Longport, Staffordshire, England
Production date
circa 1795
Measurements
basket 92 x 270 x 180 mm
tray 25 x 285 x 120 mm
tray 25 x 285 x 120 mm
Inscriptions
Mark, impressed upper and lowercase Davenport name over an anchor to basket, Davenport.
stand unmarked.
Handwritten label 308, refers to the Burley Register number
stand unmarked.
Handwritten label 308, refers to the Burley Register number
Credit line
bequest of Alwynne Jona OAM, Melbourne 2013
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection and Christine Bell
Accession number
A1298
TJC reference number
1642
