Dear Transferware Enthusiasts:
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MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL NOTICE |
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It’s that time of year again to renew your membership in the
Transferware Collector’s Club for 2022.
Benefits of Membership:
The TCC Bulletin
Access to the Database of over 17,000 patterns
Invitations to Meetings and Seminars
TCC Sponsored Videos and Articles Featuring Transferware
Click on My Account, Login, and then go to
Add/Renew Membership to pay with PayPal.
All International Members must renew though PayPal.
For a printable membership renewal form, go to the website,
Click on Join, and click on the Printable Membership Form.
Thank you for your prompt renewal.
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TCC TRANSFERWARE WORLDWIDE LECTURE SERIES |
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Thursday, December 9, 2021, 1PM EST
Staffordshire Hospitality: An Exploration of Staffordshire Transferware Made for and Used by the Hospitality Trade
Lecturer: Ben Miller, Assistant Curator of Ceramics, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
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Ben’s lecture will explore the 300-year history of North Staffordshire ceramics created for the hospitality industry: Ceramics that have helped to quench the thirst and fill the bellies of inn and tavern patrons, cleanse hotel guests, supply banqueting halls, and cater for travellers on land, sea, and in the air.
Our Speaker: Ben Miller has worked with ceramics collections since 2012 starting his career at The Wedgwood Museum before moving on to The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. He completed his BA at Keele University between 2006 and 2009 and his MA at Birmingham University’s Ironbridge Institute in 2010. From 2012 to 2015 he worked as a Museum Assistant at The Wedgwood Museum during which time was able to research a wide variety of topics across the Wedgwood collection and archive. In 2015 he joined the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery as Assistant Curator of Ceramics and has since worked on several exhibitions and given talks to a number of collectors’ groups. His passion lies in Staffordshire ceramics from the 18th century to the present with a particular interest in 19th and 20th century factory production, overseas trade, and design.
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Join the Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 894 5324 2433
Passcode: 732701
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Hansons Auctioneers
The Bishton Hall Curated Ceramics & Glass Auction
December 8, 2021
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Dr Richard Halliday is pleased to announce the next Curated Ceramics auction at Hansons Auctioneers at their Bishton Hall site on the 8th of December. There will be a great many lots of transferware from three large collections, including the Nicholas Moore collection and the Kentish collections. Patterns such as Beemaster, Durham Ox, Caramanian, Beemaster, Blind Boy, Aesop’s Fables, Indian Sporting are amongst the offerings.
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Please contact us if you are offering or know of an upcoming auction
with an emphasis on transferware.
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This image was taken during the tour of Nick Routson’s outstanding collection of American Historical Views during the 2017 TCC Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Assembled over a period of more than 40 years, the collection consisted of more than 1,000 pieces and was considered one of the finest collections of American Historical View on transferware. Jeffrey Evans Auctions has been offering the collection in a series of sales, with two remaining in 2022. Nearly all the patterns in the collection are included in the TCC Database. Go to the Puzzle. See past Puzzles of the Month.
Thanks to Scott Hanson for preparing the "Puzzle of the Month."
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Shown is a 12.5 inch platter made by Ralph Wedgwood & Co. (1790-1798). The pattern is known as Elephant & Howdah, as well as other descriptive names. For more information, see pattern in the TCC database. More information.
Thanks to Judie Siddall for preparing the "Pattern of the Month."
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Thanks to David Hoexter for preparing the "Photo of the Month."
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Bulletin TCC 2021 Number 2
The TCC Bulletin Index -- incorporating listings of articles from the Fall 1999 issue through to the most recent issue. A rich resource! Search Index search.
Bulletin editor is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin. Contacts:
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SEEKING BULLETIN SUBMITTALS |
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The TCC Bulletin editor seeks submittals to future editions, particularly from first time or occasional authors. We have an extremely knowledgeable member base, yet many of our members seldom or never share their knowledge, at least in printed form. Now is your chance. Bulletin submittals do not need to be extremely technical or lengthy. They just need to be interesting and relate to British transferware! And they need to be accompanied by quality images. We would especially welcome articles from our growing number of archaeologist members.
Don’t fret if you have little experience. We will be pleased to work with you, to formulate your concept and bring your article along. Simply send us your ideas, if that is where you are, or text, even in preliminary form, if you are further along. Please submit in MS Word format, and separately, images in png, pdf or jpeg format. Please do NOT convert to PDF. Don’t worry if this is a problem for you; we’ll work with you to bring your article from preliminary to final, printed, stage, no matter your level of computer and word processes experience.
Suggested topics:
- Your favorite transferware piece, either your own or displayed elsewhere (why is it your favorite?, how did you acquire it?, what is the pattern, maker if known?).
- What is your favorite place to view transferware: museum? stately home? Historic or archaeological site?
- Tell (and show) us your own collection (really good pictures required).
- New discoveries.
- Archaeological sites: overall summary of the excavation as relates to transferware; discuss a particular pattern or piece; context/importance of the transferware.
- In-depth research of a pattern, series, maker.
Contacts:
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A Membership List updated in August 2021 is now available (for members only and only for non-commercial use). Download now. Please review your entry on the list, and notify us of any changes in your contact information.
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TRANSFERWARE WORLDWIDE LECTURE SERIES |
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Upcoming Lecture
Thursday, January 13, 2022 – British transferware for the Dutch Market, c. 1775-1850
Lecturer: Wytze Stellingwerf, Archaeologist and Specialist of Late and Post-Medieval Material Culture, Archeologie West-Friesland. more information
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Past Lectures
All of our past lectures, dating back to September 2020, have been recorded and are available to current TCC members on the TCC website. Member login required. TCC website.
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LECTURE SERIES INVITATIONS |
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Haywards Heath Ceramics Group
Thursday, December 9, 10:30AM UK time
“Victoria, Albert and Minton. From the Great Exhibition to the Royal Dairy”
presented by Helena Pickup
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert loved to collect the decorative arts and their patronage helped to make Minton a household name. Today, Helena traces their relationship with Minton, from Queen Victoria's significant purchases at the Great Exhibition of 1851, to Minton's role in the building of the Royal Dairy at Windsor.
After a first degree in Modern History at the University of Oxford, Helena studied for an MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors at the Wallace Collection in London. She went on to work as a curator for the National Trust at Waddesdon Manor, a 19th century Rothschild house with an important decorative arts collection. During seven years at Waddesdon she worked on their education, exhibition and research programme as well as contributing to catalogues and other publications. For more than ten years Helena has been a Consultant Lecturer and course leader at Sotheby’s Institute of Art London, teaching fine and decorative arts and the history of collecting and of luxury goods from the Renaissance to Art Nouveau.
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Join Zoom Webinar
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 838 1247 7140
Passcode: 663793
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Connecticut Ceramics Circle
Monday, December 13, 2021 2 PM EST
White Flowers -- Blue Beasts:
Blue-and-White Ceramics from the Islamic World, 9th-17th Centuries
by Deniz Beyazit
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Although the shapes of ceramics and motifs evolved over time, the taste for the contrasting blue-and-white aesthetic endured for centuries across the broad Islamic world. This lecture will trace the history of Islamic blue-and-white ware from its introduction in 9th century Iraq to the 16th/17th century under the Ottomans (Eastern Mediterranean) and Safavids (Iran). Through the lens of blue-and-white ceramics, it will explore encounters between the Islamic world and its neighbors, China in the East and Europe in the West. In addition, the talk will highlight regional styles within the Islamic world and the inter-regional exchange of motifs and shapes in ceramics. Fascinating pairing with metalwork and textiles will illustrate the cross-media transmission of designs and forms.
A graduate of the Sorbonne Paris (2009), Dr. Deniz Beyazit is Associate Curator in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which she joined in 2010. Her research interests and expertise are diverse. They span across media and vary from medieval Islamic to Ottoman arts, and comprise medieval Islamic metalwork, carpets and textiles, ceramics and works on paper. She is particularly fascinated by cross-regional exchanges and enjoys tracing connections between people from different cultures, as well as finding parallels via different techniques or media. She currently pursues research on Islamic prayer books, religious imagery for the Prophet Muhammad and more broadly, art and imagery in the context of prayer and pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Among her recent projects are her work on Women's Dress and Fashion in the Islamic World, and on collecting Islamic art and Orientalism.
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Join Zoom Webinar
You need to register in advance for webinars.
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The Northern Ceramic Society
Tuesday, December 14, 6pm UK time
‘look equal to silver’
Evidence for Silver Lustre Decorated Ceramics
presented by
Angelika R. Kuettner, Associate Curator of Ceramics & Glass
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Lustre decoration was used at least as early as the ninth century by Persian and Syrian potters on fritware and then incorporated into Italian ceramic technology in the 15th century. The technique was revived in the 18th century by German and French porcelain manufactories and adapted by English potters in the early 19th century. Join Angelika as she briefly traces the history of silver lustre decorated ceramics and examines some of the evidence above and below ground for this often-overlooked material.
Speaker: Angelika Kuettner was promoted to Associate Curator of Ceramics & Glass at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 2019. She has been with the Foundation since 2008, beginning her tenure there as a graduate student intern in the ceramics and glass department where she worked with Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne F. Hood. She then accepted a position as associate registrar of imaging, to which curatorial responsibilities were added in 2011. During her internship she compiled a glossary of white salt-glazed stoneware plate borders, a work that appears as an appendix in the publication Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America by Skerry and Hood. Prior to graduate school at William and Mary she worked for approximately three years as the curatorial assistant at the Reeves Center at Washington and Lee University. She is a proud fellow of the 2010 Attingham Trust Summer School. Angelika has published and lectured on the ceramic-manufacturing partnership of Benjamin Leigh and John Allman in 18th-century Boston (American Ceramic Circle Journal 2015) and mended ceramics in America (Ceramics in America 2016). She served as co-editor of the 2017 issue of Ceramics in America; and published an article on silver lustreware in Federal America, which appears in the 2019 issue of the ACC Journal.
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Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 814 7543 8033
Passcode: 672933
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by Hayden Goldberg
This is one of four articles authored by transferware collector and researcher Hayden Goldberg and originally published in The Magazine ANTIQUES. This article appeared on pp. 178-182, July, 1981. Courtesy BMP Media Holdings, L.L.C. Each of the four articles is available for download at no cost to the reader. Read more.
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Enoch Wood's No.106 Series of European views was probably produced in the early to mid 1830s. Unlike many series of patterns dating from that time, it was not made in a variety of hues, but always in a very attractive two-color combination, a yellow printed border with contrasting floral sprays and central design in brown or black. Yellow, of course, is the rarest of transferware colors, and it follows that items in this series are also uncommon. At best the average collector might hope to encounter a stray plate here and there, often "Oberwessel on the Rhine". But a few years ago Judie Siddall was lucky enough to get pictures of a number of items from a complete dinner service. When the owner had bought the set she had no idea of its rarity or value, only that she liked it. She generously shared pictures of what she had, and those comprise the majority of the patterns represented in the database. Read more.
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by Coysh, A. W., Henrywood, R. K.
This dictionary brings together as many facts as possible about blue and white printed pottery at the height of its popularity and production. The authors have produced a comprehensive guide, covering every possible aspect of the subject, with Appendices which include makers' initial marks and a list of source books used by makers. More information.
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by Coysh, A. W., Henrywood, R. K.
Designed as a comprehensively cross-referenced companion to the original Dictionary, this second volume includes over 1,000 new or extended entries. These cover many previously unrecorded patterns, recent attributions, newly discovered design sources and a significant number of additional manufacturers and retailers. Some of the more interesting wares after the original deadline of 1880 have also been included. More information.
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CLUB & INFORMATION WEBSITES |
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The English Ceramics Circle
The English Ceramic Circle is dedicated to the study of ceramics manufactured, decorated, or used in the British Isles. Some of the ECC benefits to their members include: free copies of the annual ECC journal, Newsletters and other ceramic volumes and regular convivial meetings with talks on new research by ceramic experts. Link to the site.
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Flow Blue International Collectores' Club
They are a group of nearly eight hundred of the world's friendliest folks including over seventy generous dealers, bound together by their love, and occasional lust, for flow blue and mulberry china. Their mission is to promote and increase the collecting, interest, knowledge, and enjoyment of flow blue and mulberry china. Link to the site.
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Find more of the informative resources we've compiled here.
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Has Your Postal Mailing Address Changed????? |
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If you have moved but are not receiving your quarterly TCC Bulletin, you probably forgot to notify our member chair of your new address (this applies to email address changes also). The bulletin is mailed “bulk” and is not forwarded to new addresses by the USPS. Please notify the member chair directly: membership@transferwarecollectorsclub.org
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MORE ABOUT TRANSFERWARE COLLECTORS CLUB |
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
We are now accepting simple classified (not display) advertisements from TCC member transferware dealers as well as non-dealer members and auction houses. There is no charge for this member service. Following are the criteria:
- Limited to three quality images of item(s) for sale or example(s) of an item(s) you wish to purchase.
- Include a very short description paragraph, including a link to your website and/or email address.
- Dealers must be TCC members, limited to once/year maximum.
- Requests will be processed in the order received, and there is no guarantee as to when your ad will be posted.
- The TCC Web Administrator at his/her discretion has the right to reject inappropriate or inadequate submittals.
Contact:
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The Database Needs Editors
Do you love a good mystery? Do you fancy yourself to be a Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple? If your answer is "yes", then you are the perfect candidate to join the ranks of TCC Database Detectives! Download more information.
New Database Discoveries
Articles Needed
Please contact the web administrator with suggestions or contributions of future Database Discoveries articles. See Database Discoveries archives.
Contributions Needed for Bulletin
Bulletin editor Richard Halliday is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin.
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