Elsmore & Forster Ironstone Transfer Printed Animals Pearlware Pitcher

This antique ironstone pitcher by Elsmore & Forster is among John Derian's trove of handpicked vintage & antique goods. Decorated with black and white transfer-printed imagery of animals and other wild creatures, the pitcher reflects the 19th-century British fascination with the natural world beyond Europe. Made in Staffordshire, England, by the pottery partnership of Elsmore & Forster (active c. 1853–1871), this piece showcases the firm’s refined pearlware and detailed transfer printing, hallmarks of the Victorian era’s industrial ceramic period. 

Details

• 8.5" L x 8" W x 11.5" H
• Transfer printed pearlware
• Stamped on base with Elsmore & Foster maker’s mark
• Inscribed 'John Harrison 1859',
• Mid 19th-century England

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