One of the challenges facing people who wish to add to their existing sets of Poole Pottery tableware, is that very often they do not know the name of the pattern that they have. Poole Pottery have not, in general, been very good at putting the names of the patterns on the backstamp of the plates.
Probably the easiest way to identify the range that you are seeking is to view the gallery of photographs of Poole Pottery patterns at Replace Your China. The gallery covers most of the more commonly requested Poole patterns and is being added to all the time. Currently available items from each of the pattern ranges are also photographed on the site and can be purchased on line or by telephone (01202 600838).
One of the best known ranges of Poole Pottery is the Twintone colour style. Although there are about half a dozen colour combinations in this range that are seen on a regular basis, it comes as a surprise to many people that in fact Poole produced over 50 such colour combinations. These colour combinations were usually known by the names of the two colours (twin tones), such as Sky Blue and Dove Grey, Ice Green and Seagull or Sweetcorn and Brazil. However, each colour combination was also allocated a pattern code by Poole Pottery. These codes took the form of the letter "C" followed by either two or three numerals. The above three patterns for example were respectively C104, C57 and C107. If you are not sure of the name of your Twintone pattern it is often worthwhile checking the base of all of your pieces, to see if any of them bear such a number. Most will not have the number on them, but the odd one or two just might have it. In a future blog I will try to list the pattern codes with their names.
The term "Seagull", when applied to Poole Pottery Twintone, often seems to cause confusion. Seaull is a mottled grey effect in the finish of several of the colour ranges, such as Ice Green and Seagull, Peach Bloom and Seagull, Lime Yellow and Seagull, and Pink and Seagull. All of these colour ranges have the mottled grey of Seagull to compliment their alternate colour.
I hope that this has been of some help, and as stated earlier, I will try to list the pattern codes and their corresponding colours in a future post.
Enjoy your tableware and please allow us to fill the gaps on your table.
Chris Eley
Replace Your China
Tel: 01202 600838
No comments:
Post a Comment