Named Patterns

Hazel

Pattern number: A4918
Projected design date: 1938

Heliophila

Pattern number: 8723
Projected design date: 1930

Hunting

Pattern number: A8834
Projected design date: 1950

Hunting Scenes

Pattern number: A8526
Projected design date: 1948

Hunting Scenes

Pattern number: A8552
Projected design date: 1948

Iris

Pattern number: 7885
Projected design date: 1928

Jacobean

Pattern number: 427
Projected design date: 1912
Similar patterns: 576, 1798, 1800

Kiku

Pattern number: 8819
Projected design date: 1930

Comments:
The Japanese word Kiku means Chrysanthemum

Knights

Pattern number: Unknown
Projected design date: 1960

Comments:
Designed by Susan Williams-Ellis

Layebands and/or 20th Century

Pattern number: 8286
Projected design date: 1929
Similar pattern: A3040

Comments:
Sold by Heal’s in London.

The pattern takes its name from the actress Evelyn Laye CBE (1900-1996) who said that it was designed and made for her in about 1929 – see her letter of September 1980 on the left.

This pattern seems to have been in production for many years, originally known as LAYEBANDS, but has been recorded with a late Clipper backstamp (1933-50) and the printed words 20TH.CENTURY

London Prints

Pattern number: D1578
Projected design date: 1960

Comments:
This series had three prints:
St Paul’s Cathedral
Temple Bar
The Tower of London

Ludlow

Pattern number: A8692
Projected design date: 1949
Similar pattern: A8847

Comments:
Designed by SC Talbot.

Three versions have been recorded to date: plain, blue or green border.
A Pottery and Glass article (October 1949) includes the following text: … available (for export only, of course) with groundlay in a variety of colours – Spanish grey (often marked pattern A8692/1), pink, silver brown, stone and turquoise, and also with a plain uncoloured background.

Lupin

Pattern number: 7912
Projected design date: 1928

Magnolia

Pattern number: Various – see list below
Projected design date: from 1949 into the 1950s
Similar patterns:
A8649, A8674, A8713, A8714, A8724, A8733, A8797, A9243, D596

Comments:
The large magnolia flower print, usually enamelled, appears to have been used on a wide range of designs, some of which are shown in the image on the left.

Marigold

Pattern number: 8166
Projected design date: 1928

Marsh Marigold

Pattern number: 8742
Projected design date: 1930

Maryvale

Pattern number: A4740
Projected design date: 1938

Matlock

Pattern number: A4135
Projected design date: 1937

Meadowflower

Pattern number: A4433
Projected design date: 1937

Moderne

Pattern number: 8955
Projected design date: 1930

Moss Agate

Pattern number: D2541
Projected design date: 1961

Comments:
Designed by Susan Williams-Ellis

Moss Rose

Pattern number: A4455
Projected design date: 1937
Similar patterns: A7405, A9094

Olde Baltimore

Pattern number: D1533
Projected design date: Late 1950s

One o’clock

Pattern number: A2911
Projected design date: 1935

Pastoral

Pattern numbers: 8327 and 8335
Projected design date: 1929

Comments:
Examples seen so far of Pastoral patterns lead to a certain amount of confusion as to which is which. It seems certain that pattern 8327 has a green border design (upper image) whereas in pattern 8335 it is likely to be buff-coloured (lower image).

Peri

Pattern number: 8828
Projected design date: 1930

Persian

Pattern number: 5156
Projected design date: 1924/5

Primula

Pattern number: 7813
Projected design date: 1928
Similar pattern: 7923

Quadrupeds

Pattern number: 7742
Projected design date: 1928

Comments:
Designed by Susie Cooper

River Boats

Pattern number: ?
Projected design date: late 1950s

Comments:
Two different ship prints have been recorded so far: Mayflower and Natchez.

Roumanian

Pattern number: 8332
Projected design date: 1929

Saffron

Pattern number: 9057
Projected design date: 1930

Sèvres Marbling

Pattern number: Various – see list below
Projected design date: 1915-1919
Similar patterns:
859, 958, 990, 1125, 1305, 1307, 1309, 1311, 1315, 1363, 1509, 1542, 1614, 1615, 1634

Comments:
The Sèvres Marbling design was registered with the Patent Office in May 1915 – No 646904. The registration document merely shows the ‘marble’ effect which, as seen in this illustration, exists in a variety of forms, including hand-gilt and sgraffito, each having a different pattern number.

Shells

Pattern number: D1657
Projected design date: 1958
Similar pattern: S1542

Comments:
Designed by Susan Williams-Ellis.

This is likely to be one of the patterns named ‘Shells’ by Portmeirion Pottery

Ship Caroline

Pattern number: A8514
Projected design date: 1947
Similar pattern: A8709

Silver Palm

Pattern number: 8084
Projected design date: 1928

Silver Weed

Pattern number: A3861
Projected design date: 1936
Similar pattern: A3956 Summerhue

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Print 19

Sports china

Pattern number: not known
Projected design date: 1911 – registered with Patent Office as number 588114

Comments:
The following 37 teams have been recorded on both typical ‘crested’ type china as well as on a beaker (which is marked Grays Sports Pottery):

Aston Villa, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Bradford (“Park Avenue”), Bradford City, Brighton and Hove Albion, Bromwich Albion, Burnley, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Gainsborough Trinity, Grimsby Town, Huddersfield Town, Leeds City, Leicester Fosse, Luton Town, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, New Brompton, Newcastle United, Northampton, Notts County, Queen’s Park Rangers, Portsmouth, Reading, Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, Watford, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Woolwich Arsenal.

Twenty-three different footballer images have been recorded on thirty different ‘crested china’ shapes plus one small beaker. It is highly likely that most of these shapes were bought from Birks Rawlins & Co, Vine Pottery, Stoke-upon-Trent (see The Vine Pottery by Peter S Goodfellow, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2006).

The print and shape images shown here have been taken from a range of sources such as auction catalogues and auction websites. Unfortunately, the origins of some have been lost over many years. However, the Gray’s Pottery website thanks all the originators of the images, whoever has been kind enough to supply them.

The images below are the entries, in what is today called the Design Index, for Registration 588114. The page on the left is from the Registration Record and the page of images on the right is from the Representations Record. Note that only the bottom two drawings have been recorded on pots to date (September 2022): Print 19 and Print 15. It is expected that the other five were probably used and examples are awaited!