Kneeling Nude Potter Mark: Keeling & Co. Ceramic Bowl

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Keeling & Co. Late Mayers York Bowl

                     

K&Co B

 Keeling & Co. Bowl

Kneeling Nude Potter mark

From the Keeling & Co ( K & Co.) of Burslem, Staffordshire, England. Beautiful bowl with two handles and scalloped rim.  Nice gold paint around handles & rim, very minor gold loss around rim tips. York pattern. Excellent condition. Mild crazing on inside bottom of bowl. The bowl measures 9.5" at widest point, 11.5" from handle to handle and 3.5" tall.  Please examine photos for condition details. Manufactured between 1886-1890 according to the makers mark and available information.  This company was in business from 1886 -1936, but the mark was changed in 1891 to include the the word "England" by law for trade purposes.  There is no impressed mark or "England " stamp on this piece. See British ceramic history info below.

Kneeling Nude potter - "Late Mayers" 1790

"The extensive works at Dale Hall (or Dale Hole, as it used to be written), founded in 1790 originally belonged to Joseph Stubbs - a successful manufacturer of earthenware during the 1822-5 period, who having retired from business, died in 1836. He was succeeded in about 1843 by Messrs. Thomas, John & Joshua Mayer, who from 1855 traded as Mayer Brothers & Elliot, and from them the works passed through the firms of Mayer & Elliot, Liddle, Elliot, & Co., Bates, Elliot & Co., Bates, Walker & Co., and Bates, Gildea & Walker to the firm of Gildea & Walker during the 1881-6 period."

"The marks of Messrs. Mayer were T.J.& J. MAYER; MAYER BROS, etc. Those of the later firms were BATES, WALKER & Co.
PATENTEES (or other successive changes), on an oval ribbon, with date, etc., of registration inside; and a nude figure kneeling and holding a ewer in front of him, on a tablet with the date 1790. 
This device was introduced in a variety of ways, with the initials B.W. & CO., B.G. & W., or G. & W„ LATE MAYERS, and the name of
the pattern, etc. On some, the device is surrounded by a circular ribbon, on others by a triangular one.
Messrs. Gildea & Walker continued to 1886. The Dale Hall Works were subsequently worked by Keeling & Co. (Ltd.) from 1886 to 1936. They used the above mark with the initials K & Co. B."

Jewitt's "Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900"

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