STAFFORDSHIRE and Victorian

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Traditional Staffordshire ornamental pottery was made to provide cheap and cheerful ornaments for the middle and working classes in the nineteenth century.  Its success caused it to be widely imitated. A decorative Victorian pottery style, generally anonymous, in vases and planters also emerged, which is not easy to define but recognisable enough. The Japanese later turned out a good deal for this end of the market, but sometimes in porcelain rather than pottery.

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Classic Staffordshire 'flatback' taperholder	Pair of milk vendors
Staffordshire elephant taperholders	Classic Staffordshire spaniel	Staffordshire Santa Claus jar
Victorian vases		Frog matchholder. Japanese?
... and other creatures		Oil lamp base. Japanese?

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