Shards of Yorkshire

Throwing shards of light onto the old pot works of Yorkshire. To learn and enlighten through ceramic objects, mainly produced in Yorkshire.

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Shop front Mosaic #hebdenbridge #shopfronts #fish #windowshots #yorkshirearchitecture #architecture (at Hebden Bridge Yorrrrrrkshireee)

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Victorian tiles by E.Smith & Co Coalville c.1888 Leeds Central Library #victoriantiles #leeds #pottery #architecture #yorkshirearchitecture (at Leeds Central Library)

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Leeds Central library c.1888 #victoriantiles

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Girls filling shells for WW1 at Barnbow Muntions Factory, Leeds. This was Britain's premier shell factory during the war. During maximum production 16,000, mainly girls and woman were employed from Leeds, Wakefield, Castleford, York, Harrogate and surrounding villages making over 36 million cartridges, 24.75 million filled shells and 19.35 million fused and packed shells. Due to the affects of the cordite turning the girls skin and hair yellow they earned the nickname of The Barnbow Canaries. To counter the effects of the cordite the site had it's own farm with cows producing 300 gallons of milk a day for the girls to drink. "Lest We Forget" (at Leeds Central Library)

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My new piece in pride of place, a marked LP lidded chestnut basket with stand. Alongside are a couple of marked Leeds Pottery basket work dishes, all c.1780-1810. The vases at the back are Burmantofts c.1880-90 and the plant pots are both Leeds Art Pottery c.1890-1900.

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My fav piece of furniture @ Temple Newsam House. I love the rustic oak and the bright painting, this type of painted furniture was and still is popular in Germany and Scandinavia but is very unusual from 18th century Britain. From a yeomans house in Cumbria, stayed there all it’s life from 1724 until it came to Temple Newsam House in the 1970’s found out today they have been looking to give it up! Due to the main fact it’s not of the upper class style of furniture associated with the house! Boo... it’s rustic bliss leave it be TN!!! save the common mans bed!

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Happy to be back volunteering at temple newsam house updating the computer database for the pottery collection, think it will take a while...hope so anyway!!!

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My collection of Creamwares and Pearlwares including a pierced oval creamware basket with double twist handles ( one missing ) impressed LEEDS.POTTERY c.1780 to 1800. Also a globular teapot with incised bands, dot beading to the rims, double twisted handles terminating with flower-heads and a flower-head knop. c.1780-1800. My favorite tankard, creamware, of quart (2-pint) size decorated with incised engine turned pattern of square grids and rouletted banded patterns filled with black slip. Also green stained herring bone roulette bands and blue slip band rim. c.1790-1810. Bought from Newcastle, I think its either made in Tyne and Wear or Yorkshire.  

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My collection of pearlwares including two coffee pots, one painted in underglaze blue with a Chinese man holding a parasol c.1780 the other in a blue slip with cut away bands and lathe turned c.1800. Both missing lids, the painted one missing its spout. A mug printed in purple with a continental scene with a moulded and painted frog in the base and the personalized for ' L.Lewis A Present from Rotherham Sept. 17th 1877.'  Also a miniature arrow painted teapot c.1810 and a pint tankard in slip-banding and rouletted banded designs in black and blue c.1820. 

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My collection of mainly chocolate brown slip pearlwares c.1790 to 1820, includes a large 2 quart beer tankard at the back and a rare surviving small mug with hops and barley painted in underglaze colours  denoting its use, c.1810-20. Probably for a child's small beer. Beer was drink by all members of society in the past due to the high likelihood the water would be full of germs and diseases. so weak or 'small' beer would have been a lot more safer to drink. The pair of waisted flared vases would have sat on a fireplace and contained 'spills' which were strips of thin wood used to take a light from the fire and then light your candles from. c.1800. 

Also displayed is a small coffee pot c.1770 and a jug in the so called 'Jackfield' body. This is a red earthenware covered in a shiny black glaze which has taken the name of a town in Shropshire which made this type of wear. It was also made in most pottery making areas of the 1760 to 1790 period. The jug c.1780 is nicely painted in overglaze enamels with a bird and foliage, It's also painted with the original owners name in gilt, which as worn off just leaving a trace 'James Skidmore '.  

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Group of blue painted pearlwares in the collection on Leeds Museums and Galleries, including a nice double walled tea caddie c.1770-80 and a named and dated teapot 1778. Stated the teapot is Probably Leeds Pottery, could be also Swinton Pottery. On display in Leeds Museum

. The teapot has recently been attributed to the Rotherham Pottery which was producing creamwares and pearlwares in the 1770's by John Griffin see p.30 The Yorkshire Potteries 2012. The painting matches the work on a loving cup that was made in the same year at the Rotherham Old Pottery, also the exact teapot spout has been excavated on the pottery site. ( the same spout was used at Leeds and Swinton though).

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'This is Amsterdam. And this is my Bike' video

(from: http://www.amsterdam.nl/parkeren-verkeer/fiets/cycling-policy/)

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Creamware teapot with underglaze mottled 'Whieldon'  decoration and cold gilding to terminals and knop. c.1770-1780. This shape and features have been attributed to the Rothwell Pottery near Leeds, Yorkshire. The factory used no marks. Very little amount of wares have been attributed to this factory. With only a few very small amount of shards that have been recovered from the site with little to tell us in way of features which can be used in attributions. The ones that have are tentative.Teapot In the V&A Collection.

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Don Pottery, Swinton, Yorkshire Creamware jug named and dated for 1826, not marked, shape and decoration typical Don, see John Griffin's Don Pottery book. Made £46 on Ebay, sold 29th November 2012.

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Prattware / Pearlware Puzzle Jug and Cover, c.1790-1800, relief moulded with a band of figures in the classical style, zoomorphic spout, figurative finial and handle (badly damaged and repaired with the pierced gallery and side spouts missing), 24.5cms high. Large impressed crown mark. This mark when found on high temperature underglaze coloured pieces, mainly figure and animal groups or Toby jugs, as been attributed to the Swillington Bridge Pottery which was in Oulton near Leeds, Yorkshire. The attribution of this charming and brightly decorated group of pottery seems to stem from this factory using an impressed crown mark. In fact it used at least three different impressed crown marks but non match this particular one and other factories are known (Ferrybridge just a few miles down the river being one) to have used crown marks. Unfortunately no so called 'Prattware' as been found on the Swillington Bridge site.

 Sheffield Auction Galleries sale 25/01/2013               Lot 122, Estimate: £40-70 Hammer price: £260

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                            Documentary Rotherham Pottery Jug, blue and white transfer printed with an Oddfellows design, painted with a verse and dated 1845, the underside inscribed "Ralph Brunt, Painted, Rotherham Pottery", 18cms high.  Estimate: £100-150 hammer price £360

Sheffield Auction Gallery,  25th January 2013. Lot 136.