Name:

"Giraffe" #1Color:

More than one colorBlue, Brown, Gray, Green, P ink, Purple

Body ty pe:

Earthenware

Category :

Animals / Wild

Border:

Floral and Botanical / Floral with contrasting elements / Other

Central pattern image: Ov erall pattern image:

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Additional image:

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Border image:

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Title:Giraffes with the Arabs who brought them over to thisCountry, The

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Artist: Scharf, George the elderEngraver / Plate Maker: Scharf, George the elderPrint Date: 1835George Scharf the elder was an engraver for the London Zoological Gardens in its early years.

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Title: Giraffe patterns

Although the engraving of the giraffe was found in Knight, it was probably copied from anearlier source.BibliographyCitations:Knight1850

Source image:

John Ridgway No image

Makers and Marks:

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J. R.1830 - 1841HanleyStaffordshire

Additional Marks

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3 male giraffes Distant mountains Female giraffe

Native attendants Tents

Additional inf ormation:

Saucer, 6 inches. The tea service, of which thissaucer is a part, has a different border than thedinner service. A platter from the dinner service canbe seen in the database by searching "Giraffe" #2. Itwas not unusual for a factory to use differentborders with the same center pattern on dinner andtea services. Although the above saucer is marked,the mark does not include the initials J.R. that areunder the words Stone Ware. The mark with theinitials can be seen in the "Giraffe" # 2 entry. Thecenter of the saucer is the same pattern that isfound on the platter (Giraffe #2). However, this isnot true of the hollow pieces; sugar bowl, teapot,cup, etc. The Additional Image shows the typicalshape Ridgway sugar bowl measures 7.5 x 4.75 x5.5 inches to the top of the finial. Even though thesugar is unmarked, a printed mark occurs on somepieces "Published August 30th, 1836" as reportedon p. 633 in WilliamsWeberI1978 along with aphoto of a plate. On p. 90, CoyshHenrywood1989show a plate in the pattern as well as the printedpublication mark. Williams2008, p. 158, shows a6.5 inch plate. An array of photos of various piecesin the pattern are seen on pp 6-7 of the TCCBulletin, Summer 2006, as well as documentation ofthe actual giraffes depicted on the wares. A coloredlithograph by George Scharf, 1836, is reproducedshowing the Giraffes with the Arabs who broughtthem to England. Most of the pieces show the 3male giraffes in the center of the scene, named L toR: Mabrouk, Selim, and Guib. Some hollowware,such as this sugar bowl also feature Zaida, thefemale at the left, nibbling leaves from theoverhanging tree. It is interesting to note what thepottery engraver chose to keep and not to keepfrom the source print. The female giraffe in thesource print does not look as elegant as she does onthe pottery! However, she is seen at her best in thesecond source print taken from Charles Knight'sbook "Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature".

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Cups and cup plates bear simplified versions of thepattern. See Giraffe #2 for more information aboutthis pattern.

Bibliography :

CoyshHenrywood1989:Coysh, A. W. and Henrywood, R. K. The Dictionary of Blue andWhite Printed Pottery 1780-1880 Vol. II. Woodbridge, Suffolk:Baron Publishing, 1989.

TCC1999-:Transferware Collectors Club Bulletins. U.S.A. TransferwareCollectors Club, 1999-. Published quarterly (Periodical)

Williams2008:Williams, Margie J. The Charm of English P ink: Volume I, ThePots. Newcastle, California: Altarfire Publishing, 2008.

WilliamsWeberI1978:Williams, Petra with Weber, Marguerite R. Staffordshire RomanticTransfer Patterns: Cup P lates and Early Victorian China.Jeffersontown, Kentucky: Fountain House East, 1978.