Pattern No: A8361

If the amount of A8361 pots seen at auction and on auction sites is anything to go by, this must have been a popular pattern. It has been recorded on a wide range of both useful and ornamental ware such as tea and coffee ware, jugs, plates, comports, preserve pots and breakfast-in-bed sets.
Many of the pots recorded have been in North America, undoubtedly a reflection of the influence of the British government’s introduction of regulations concerning decorated pottery during the Second World War: the manufacture of decorated pots for the Home market was largely forbidden in order to encourage and develop export sales.

The third image is of a breakfast-in-bed set: see the website section Ware Suppliers, Futura Art Pottery for more information on these sets.

At least one pot of this pattern has been recorded with an early Clipper (Hanley) backstamp – either reference N0 or N1 (see the Backstamps section), marks typically in use between 1931 and 1933. The only logical explanation is that there was a shortage of the later Clipper (Stoke-on-Trent) backstamp: perhaps there was an interruption of supplies during the restrictive conditions imposed by the Second World War.