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<p>[QUOTE="Ken CARTER, post: 4266347, member: 21720"]W&R/L: two possible attributions - Wayte & Ridge of Longton Staffordshire and Wittmann & Roth of London.</p><p>1. Wayte & Ridge - a short-lived pottery apparently based at the Waterloo Pottery Longton c. 1864. It appears only once in the Pottery Directories of the period and in only one of the directories - Jones' Mercantile Directory of the Pottery District of Staffordshire for the year 1864. W&R took out an advertisement in that directory which gives their address as Waterloo Place Pottery, Longton. (Source: R.K. Henrywood's book Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900.) In May 1865, Wayte & Ridge was declared bankrupt. (Source: thepotteries.org website which lists information about hundreds of potters and potteries and which shows a copy of the notice of bankruptcy from the London Gazette of 20th October 1865.)</p><p>2. The Waterloo Place Pottery was occupied by Deakin & Son up to 1863 and by Lowe and Abberley from c.1864. (Source: the potteries.org. and also Henrywood's book citing the same 1864 Jones directory.) So Wayte & Ridge cannot have occupied the site for more than a few months at best.</p><p>3. Wittmann & Roth of London - Roth joined Wittmann in 1870 and their partnership continued until 1896. They retailed ceramics and glass, mainly imported from the European Continent. Wittmann & Roth registered several Class IV designs (i.e. ceramics-related) with the British Design Registry to protect the copyright of certain designs on the UK market. One of these registrations dated 8th December 1876 parcel 2 relates to two statues of British politicians Disraeli and Gladstone (Source: Godden's New Handbook of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks).</p><p>4. The mark with the initials W&R/L: I have found three applied or impressed variations of the mark on ceramics, and one hand painted enamelled variant. Your Malabar Lady and Malabar Man statues have two of them i.e. W&R/L - cf photo above of statue numbered 110 and W&R aligned vertically in a sort of lozenge above the L - cf. photo of statue numbered 111. As so does a majolica-glazed monkey wall pocket which can also be found with both of the marks appearing on your statues. The third variant has the W&R horizontally aligned in a sort of lozenge above the L. This variant appears on the Disraeli and Gladstone statues which also bear the impressed British design register diamond mark with the date code given by Godden 8th December 1876. It is clear that the 3rd mark cannot be Wayte & Ridge, 11 years after their bankruptcy. The enamelled variant also appears on the majolica-glazed monkey wall pocket. So all from the same manufacturer. The simple W&R/L impressed mark will also be found on plates (mine for example), other statues of fishermen and women, children crying over broken pots amongst others.</p><p>5. So who to attribute the other two impressed or applied marks to? From your own statues we can deduce that the two variations of the mark are from the same manufacturer given the similarity of the modelling, the consecutive numbering of the patterns and the Serif policy of the numbers. The high pattern numbers also indicate a substantial production capability in terms of designers, modellers, and production; and a later rather than earlier production of majolica. (I am grateful here for the advice and opinion of the Assistant Curator of the Stoke City Museum whom I contacted and who pointed me to Antiques Board and your post when I wrote to ask about Wayte and Ridge.) As I am sure you know, Victorian majolica was launched by Minton at the 1851 Universal Exhibition in London. Production reached its heyday in the 1870s and 1880s and started to die out in Great Britain by the end of the 19th century. Roughly speaking on the Continent and in the USA, its production started in the early 1860s and died out after the WW1. Not yet 100% conclusive of a Wittmann & Roth attribution for all three variants of the mark but the above points all very much favour production to order by the London retailer for the UK market.</p><p>Sorry to have been so longwinded and not be able to say with certainty who actually manufactured your statues. They are most likely Continental produced to order for the UK market by Wittmann & Roth of London, just like my majolica plate.</p><p>One final anecdote - neither of the persons I contacted at the potteries.org or the City Museum at Stoke had actually heard of Wayte & Ridge until I corresponded with them. They both reacted very quickly and helpfully with their information and opinions. So my warm thanks to them both. Thepotteries.org website was quickly updated to include what little information is available about the rather obscure Wayte & Ridge and I understand is in contact with the National Archives in the UK to ascertain design registry information relative to Wittmann & Roth's records. So hopefully there will certainty in the near future. And I will continue to search too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ken CARTER, post: 4266347, member: 21720"]W&R/L: two possible attributions - Wayte & Ridge of Longton Staffordshire and Wittmann & Roth of London. 1. Wayte & Ridge - a short-lived pottery apparently based at the Waterloo Pottery Longton c. 1864. It appears only once in the Pottery Directories of the period and in only one of the directories - Jones' Mercantile Directory of the Pottery District of Staffordshire for the year 1864. W&R took out an advertisement in that directory which gives their address as Waterloo Place Pottery, Longton. (Source: R.K. Henrywood's book Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900.) In May 1865, Wayte & Ridge was declared bankrupt. (Source: thepotteries.org website which lists information about hundreds of potters and potteries and which shows a copy of the notice of bankruptcy from the London Gazette of 20th October 1865.) 2. The Waterloo Place Pottery was occupied by Deakin & Son up to 1863 and by Lowe and Abberley from c.1864. (Source: the potteries.org. and also Henrywood's book citing the same 1864 Jones directory.) So Wayte & Ridge cannot have occupied the site for more than a few months at best. 3. Wittmann & Roth of London - Roth joined Wittmann in 1870 and their partnership continued until 1896. They retailed ceramics and glass, mainly imported from the European Continent. Wittmann & Roth registered several Class IV designs (i.e. ceramics-related) with the British Design Registry to protect the copyright of certain designs on the UK market. One of these registrations dated 8th December 1876 parcel 2 relates to two statues of British politicians Disraeli and Gladstone (Source: Godden's New Handbook of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks). 4. The mark with the initials W&R/L: I have found three applied or impressed variations of the mark on ceramics, and one hand painted enamelled variant. Your Malabar Lady and Malabar Man statues have two of them i.e. W&R/L - cf photo above of statue numbered 110 and W&R aligned vertically in a sort of lozenge above the L - cf. photo of statue numbered 111. As so does a majolica-glazed monkey wall pocket which can also be found with both of the marks appearing on your statues. The third variant has the W&R horizontally aligned in a sort of lozenge above the L. This variant appears on the Disraeli and Gladstone statues which also bear the impressed British design register diamond mark with the date code given by Godden 8th December 1876. It is clear that the 3rd mark cannot be Wayte & Ridge, 11 years after their bankruptcy. The enamelled variant also appears on the majolica-glazed monkey wall pocket. So all from the same manufacturer. The simple W&R/L impressed mark will also be found on plates (mine for example), other statues of fishermen and women, children crying over broken pots amongst others. 5. So who to attribute the other two impressed or applied marks to? From your own statues we can deduce that the two variations of the mark are from the same manufacturer given the similarity of the modelling, the consecutive numbering of the patterns and the Serif policy of the numbers. The high pattern numbers also indicate a substantial production capability in terms of designers, modellers, and production; and a later rather than earlier production of majolica. (I am grateful here for the advice and opinion of the Assistant Curator of the Stoke City Museum whom I contacted and who pointed me to Antiques Board and your post when I wrote to ask about Wayte and Ridge.) As I am sure you know, Victorian majolica was launched by Minton at the 1851 Universal Exhibition in London. Production reached its heyday in the 1870s and 1880s and started to die out in Great Britain by the end of the 19th century. Roughly speaking on the Continent and in the USA, its production started in the early 1860s and died out after the WW1. Not yet 100% conclusive of a Wittmann & Roth attribution for all three variants of the mark but the above points all very much favour production to order by the London retailer for the UK market. Sorry to have been so longwinded and not be able to say with certainty who actually manufactured your statues. They are most likely Continental produced to order for the UK market by Wittmann & Roth of London, just like my majolica plate. One final anecdote - neither of the persons I contacted at the potteries.org or the City Museum at Stoke had actually heard of Wayte & Ridge until I corresponded with them. They both reacted very quickly and helpfully with their information and opinions. So my warm thanks to them both. Thepotteries.org website was quickly updated to include what little information is available about the rather obscure Wayte & Ridge and I understand is in contact with the National Archives in the UK to ascertain design registry information relative to Wittmann & Roth's records. So hopefully there will certainty in the near future. And I will continue to search too.[/QUOTE]
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