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Stella (beige)

Pattern number: A3872
Projected design date: 1936

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella (bright blue)

Pattern number: A3871
Projected design date: 1936

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella (green)

Pattern number: A3870
Projected design date: 1936

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella (green)

Pattern number: A8426
Projected design date: 1947

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella (light blue)

Pattern number: A8429
Projected design date: 1947

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella (pink)

Pattern number: A3869
Projected design date: 1936

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella 2 (blue)

Pattern number: A4629
Projected design date: 1938

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Stella (yellow)

Pattern numbers: A3862 and A3868
Projected design date: 1936

Comments:
One of a large range of patterns incorporating raised spots, named Stella spots after the paintress Stella Taylor

Strawberry (BC)

Pattern number: A8261
Projected design date: 1945
Similar pattern: A8391

Strawberry (silver)

Pattern number: A8391
Projected design date: 1946
Similar pattern: A8261

Summerhue

Pattern number: A3956
Projected design date: 1936
Similar pattern: A3861 Silver Weed

Summer-Moon

Pattern number: A4178
Projected design date: 1937
Similar pattern: A4379

An in-store demonstration using Summertime (below) by Gray's paintress Lily Burgess in about 1930. The location is probably at Barker's in London

Summertime

Pattern number: 8586
Projected design date: 1930
Similar pattern: 8863

Sunflower

Pattern number: 8985
Projected design date: 1930

Sunnydale

Pattern number: A1476
Projected design date: 1934

Pottery and Glass 1946-1947
1946 advertisement from Pottery and Glass.
Scan produced with help from Stoke-on-Trent Central Library

Sunrise

Pattern number: A3189
Projected design date: 1936
Similar patterns: A2710, A8687

Unfortunately we do not have an image of this pattern

Sunshine

Pattern number: Unknown
Projected design date: 1936

Comments:
Referred to in a Pottery and Glass Record report on the 1936 British Industries Fair

Photograph courtesy Swansea Museum

Swansea

Pattern number: 1586
Projected design date: 1918

Sweet Pea

Pattern number: 8767
Projected design date: 1930

Tabard Inn

Pattern number: A8569
Projected design date: 1948

The Old Mill

Pattern number: A8570
Projected design date: 1947 onwards
Similar patterns: A8468, A8721, A8722, A9497

Comments:
This print was used on various designs, by itself or with bands and/or lustre

Thistle

Pattern number: 8408
Projected design date: 1929

Comments:
Designed for Heal’s

Tournament

Pattern number: 9060
Projected design date: 1930

Tree (sepia & gold)

Pattern number: A5561
Projected design date: 1939
Similar patterns: A8384, B109

Trellis

Pattern number: 9089
Projected design date: 1930

March 1951 feature from Pottery Gazette.
Scan produced with help from Stoke-on-Trent Central Library.

Tudor Rose (blue/silver)

Pattern number: A8990
Projected design date: 1951
Similar pattern: A8991

Tudor Rose (green)

Pattern number: A8991
Projected design date: 1951
Similar pattern: A8990

Verbena

Pattern number: 8766
Projected design date: 1930

June 1949 feature from Pottery and Glass.
Scan produced with help from Stoke-on-Trent Central Library.

Vine (bronze)

Pattern number: A8670
Projected design date: 1949

Comments:
One of many patterns with a vine motif

Wayside Inn

Pattern number: A8685
Projected design date: 1949

Comments:
It is likely that Wayside Inn was a generic name used for a design having several different prints including: The Barley Mow, The Jolly Waggoner and Ye Olde Jug Inn, as well as Wayside Inn

See the Prints & Verses, Subjects section for more examples

Willow

Pattern number: A4147
Projected design date: 1937

Woodcut (brown)

Pattern number: A4073
Projected design date: 1937
Similar pattern: A4029

Unfortunately we do not have an image of this pattern

Woodcut (gold)

Pattern number: A4029
Projected design date: 1937
Similar pattern: A4073

Woodgrave

Pattern numbers: A4097 and A4169
Projected design date: 1937

Comments:
Both patterns have the same print, but the surrounds are very different

Zebra (bronze)

Pattern number: A9277
Projected design date: 1952
Similar pattern: A9278

Photograph courtesy Rowena & Geoff Myers

Zebra (silver)

Pattern number: A9278
Projected design date: 1952
Similar pattern: A9277

Zodiac

Pattern number: Possibly A7888
Projected design date: 1950s

Comments:
These plates, with a Sign of the Zodiac print in the centre, have a Heals2 backstamp