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The
first productions from the pottery were blue-prined wares. Dinner, toilet,
tea, and coffee services, punch-bowls, mugs and jugs were made.
This blue-printing may have been a practical adaption
of what fate bestowed in the form of copper residues from Roe's
works which are said to have tinged the early wares blue.
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This
9 inch plate is an example of blue and white transfer ware from around 1820.
It carries a design known as the Greek Pattern which according to Coysh
(the authority in these matters) is attributable to the
Herculaneum Pottery however there is no
maker's mark on the underside.
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The second picture shows a specimen of the Herculaneum India Series Pearlware Blue Printed series.
This was all blue, transfer-printed pearlware.
The plate is 9.8 inches wide.
This print is titled 'Mausoleum of Sultan Perveiz Near
Allahabad' and is one of the less common views from the Herculaneum
Pottery in Liverpool’s India Series of transferware.
This again dates from c.1820
and again it has no maker's mark on the base, simply a number and a small blue,
circular mark..
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Reference material :-
Smith, Alan: Illustrated
Guide to Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery (Barrie & Jenkins, London,
1970)
Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900
Gore's
Directory 1858
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Herculaneum
Pottery -
examples