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550, 552. © Manningham Press

An excerpt from Peter Walton’s Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds. London: Manningham, 1976: p. 138.

550. ‘QUINTAL FLOWER–HORN’

h.22.5 — 1890.7

Pale cream with a greenish-yellow glaze.

Hand shaped, with five splayed sockets. Moulded with bead borders, and festoons of fruit and leaves suspended from flowers and standing on an oblong base moulded with a bay-leaf garland and egg and dart.

Probably Staffordshire, perhaps Wood, Burslam, 1780’s.

The attribution to Wood is Donald Towner’s.

The L.P.B. and C.P.B. both illustrate a ‘Quintal Flower Horn’, 142 and 29 respectively. The W.P.B. illustrates a similar article called a ‘Five Fingered Flower Pot’ (111). Similar to no.511. The Leeds Agent’s Book prices such articles at 1 /6d. (‘small’) and 1 /9d. (‘large’).

PROV: J. HolmesCollection; bought 1892.

LIT: Leeds Handbook, 1951, 31.

EXHIB: Kenwood, 1958, 47.