Green Transferware Staffordshire Bone / Trinket / Relish Dish

Features an elegant scalloped form with embossed detailing and delicate green floral transfer decoration around the rim.

  This dates between 1901-1913 and was made by the Clementson Bros of Hanley, Staffordshire, part of the famous English pottery district now known as Stoke-on-Trent., Stoke-On-trent, Staffordshire, formerly J Clementson.

Joseph Clementson was an early advocate for the amalgamation of the five towns which make up Stoke On Trent.  The federation of Stoke On Trent  came to fruition in the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton into the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent

Joseph Clementson was born at Carrigill, Cumberland on 15 July 1794.  At the age of 17 he began working in the Potteries and by 1820 was apprenticing at J. & W. Ridgway.  Sometime around 1832 he started his own business at the Phoenix Works, Shelton, in partnership with Jonah Read who he remained in business with until 1839.  JC continued on his own, enlarging the works in 1845 and then buying the Bell Works in 1856.   He retired from business in 1867 and left it to his four sons and his son-in-law, Edward Baxter, a minister who had married his youngest daughter Lucy.  They continued the business under the name Clementson Bros.

Marked on underside:
“SEMI CHINA – CLEMENTSON BROS – ENGLAND TORBY”

Produced in Staffordshire, England, circa 1901–1913.

Details:

• Pattern: Torby
• Color: Green transferware on white
• Material: Semi-porcelain / ironstone (“Semi China”)
• Shape: Celery dish / relish dish
• Era: Edwardian

Condition: no chips or cracks. some mild crazing
Measures Appx 6”

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