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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 260985, member: 50&quot;]I first viewed your posting from my phone which didn&#039;t make it obvious which category you were posting in. I only mention that because many people will look at items if put in a category but miss them in introductions. So if no one else offers opinions on your pieces, try the Pottery, Glass and Porcelain category so more people might look in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m no expert but what I think is that the shapes of your teapot, tea bowls and creamer are consistent with circa 1830&#039;s transferware probably from Staffordshire. The pattern though, to my eye, looks a little free rather than the constrained patterns often seen in the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve given a little look through the books I have with Staffordshire transferware patterns and didn&#039;t see this one. Here is an article, written for archaeology in the US, that describe a bit about the time period of tea cups based on shape.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/post-colonial%20ceramics/Cup%20Shapes/Essay%20on%20Cup%20&amp;%20Bowl%20Shapes.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/post-colonial%20ceramics/Cup%20Shapes/Essay%20on%20Cup%20&amp;%20Bowl%20Shapes.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/post-colonial ceramics/Cup Shapes/Essay on Cup &amp; Bowl Shapes.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is just a small excerpt about the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]81650[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>According to Robert Copeland, Bute shape cups were more popular in England than those of the London shape cups that were the most popular in the United States (Robert Copeland, personal communication). London shape cups do not become common on American sites until around the 1820s. By that time they began to replace common shape cups. Potters’ invoices for wares imported to America almost never mention the cup shapes, so the dates presented here are impressionistic. London/Grecian shape cups have not been seen in creamware or China glaze painted wares. They are very common on printed and painted pearlwares. This shape is clearly the dominant one used from ca. 1825 into the 1840s, when it begins to be replaced by double curve shape cups. This shape is rarely seen on white granite wares. Cups and bowls of the London shape can be found on the following wares with several types of decoration listed in Table 11.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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