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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValerieK, post: 2392833, member: 7360&quot;]I actually ordered Painted in Blue last night from the Northern Ceramic Society, and I&#039;m sure it will be very useful in future, although I&#039;m disappointed to hear that it doesn&#039;t identify the maker.&nbsp; It&#039;s so frustrating to finally find a picture of a researched item in a book, only to have it listed as &quot;Unidentified&quot;!&nbsp; But I will now have a good browse through my books on painted blue patterns, including Spode, and see if I can find other examples of this style, which still looks more continental to me, although I do hope it&#039;s English.&nbsp; They all copied each other so much it&#039;s difficult to be sure.&nbsp; Apart from the garlands draped from rings, the main distinctive feature is the odd rosette-shaped flowers, which remind me of pictures of home-made Christmas decorations made from dried orange slices, probably not the effect intended!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been looking in Berthoud &amp; Maxell&#039;s A Directory of British Teapots (heavy book, very useful for pattern identification) and they have a whole section on &quot;The Silver or Commode Shape&quot;, which is circa 1780 to 1805.&nbsp; Naming shapes seems to me to be a useful way of subdividing Georgian shapes in ceramics, which cover a very long period and lots of styles, and it comes just before the &quot;Old Oval&quot; shape.&nbsp; What would an American call it?&nbsp; The only teapot which is in painted blue and is remotely like the tea canister is plate 497, by Ephraim Chatterley, Hanley, in pearlware, but really they are not much alike.&nbsp; So the hunt goes on, but in a new direction and with a more open mind.&nbsp; Great will be my joy when I finally (with lots of help) manage to identify it, if ever.&nbsp; With so many competent but virtually unknown ceramic manufacturers at the time, it may never be firmly identified, but at least I know its approximate age, and will class it as English unless proved otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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