Category: Pottery Marks

This post is all about valuable pottery marks. Here I will be discussing various premium marks that can be found on pottery and the identification of valuable pottery marks. …

Anchor shaped pottery marks. Find and identify your anchor shaped mark easily. Painted brown or red. Bow of London on soft paste porcelain circa 1760 – 1780 Painted blue …

If you are researching English pottery or English pottery marks or backstamps we recommend the following books to aid in you research. Encyclopedia Of British Pottery And Porcelain Marks …

Staffordshire Pottery Identification Using Backstamps The name of the pottery manufacturer and an approximation of date of manufacture can be discovered if the piece of pottery has a backstamp.There …

Pottery marks and porcelain marks are like silver hallmarks – often difficult to decipher, frequently duplicated with very small variations by other manufacturers, and changing with periods of manufacture …

Derby Porcelain Works C 1759 – Present Day Original factory closed in 1848.Marks to that date shown below. Derby makers marks 1. Incised c1770 – 1780. Occasionally also in …

Worcester Porcelain Marks 1751 – present day. First period marks to 1793 only given below. 1 – 4. Crescent marks, painted or printed in underglaze blue c1755 – 1790 …

Davenport Longport c1793 – 1887 1 and 2. Name impressed, sometimes with an anchor. Lower case letters 1793 – 1810, upper case after 1805. 3. Printed on stone china …