by Tom Licence | Jun 2, 2019
Intact, undamaged saucer, showing birds on a nest with eggs, inside a decorative border. Transfer-printed, with hand-painted colour in the central scene.
by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Fragments of transfer-printed and painted tableware.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Part of an under-glaze-printed bowl. The pattern has been created by repeat printing with a sponge, carved block of potato, or similar.
by Tom Licence | May 18, 2016
Bottle glass, blue and white transfer-printed serving dishes, drinking glasses (fragmentary), broken ‘Hamilton’ bottles (bottom right corner), cut glass tumblers (above the ‘Hamiltons’), and a medicine bottle above them. All discarded at...
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
An assemblage of household rubbish discarded in the 1870s at Brockdish rectory. Top left (from left to right): clinker, oyster shells, small bones, green glass German mineral water bottle fragments and aqua glass English wine/ ale bottle fragments, ‘black’...
by Tom Licence | Mar 12, 2016
Two jars for keeping ginger (minus their lids) and a cut glass pedestal bowl.
by Tom Licence | Jan 11, 2015
Part of a bowl, with a red transfer showing the logo of the Salvation Army (introduced in 1879), beneath the words ‘Food and Shelter’.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Plain white slops bowl, with lip.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Glassware from the School House, including a turquoise cup, a stem and foot from wine or sherry glasses, a jug or mug handle, part of a sugar bowl and a lamp flue.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Pudding bowls, for steamed puddings. From the School House. These are found in almost every rubbish dump of this period.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Assorted crockery from labourers’ rubbish, Kent. Mocha ware to the left, transfer-printed ware to the right (mostly in blue ‘Willow Pattern’). This type of crockery was cheaply manufactured and used universally. There is no hand-painted ware, which...
