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PATTERNS A - D
No images available at present - Date shown is date pattern was introduced.

Acorn - Pen outline of red acorns with green & brown oak leaves against tan & yellow runnings. 1934

Age of Jazz - A range of 5 shapes depicting dancing figures and musicians. 1930

Allsorts -  A band of overlapping circles & squares each with a vertical line passing through the centre. 1929

Alton -Distant castle turrets partly hidden by a bushy hillside with colourful flowers in the foreground. 1933

Amberose - Red & yellow roses with green foliage, with red stripes. 1933

Anemone - Clarice Cliff - Freehand flowers painted realistically on a mushroom glaze, sometimes with Delecia style runnings. 1937

Appliqué Avignon - A blue bridge over a lake in an ornamental garden, under an orange sky. Examples also known with coral red sky. 1930

Appliqué Bird of Paradise - A yellow & red bird on a branch heavy with black berries & blue leaves, against a green hillside. 1930

Appliqué Blossom - Freehand clematis and lilac flowers in purple & red against a trellis. 1930

Appliqué Caravan - A caravan on a hillside underneath a tree laden with red & orange fruit and green leaves. 1930

Appliqué Eden - A brown flower surrounded by black flowers, green leaves with black veins, a glimpse of orange sky and a blue & green landscape in the background. 1930

Appliqué Etna - A volcanic peak in the distance, in the foreground a blue sea with black rocky cliffs covered with red trunked green trees. 1930

Appliqué Garden - A black trunked tree with light & dark blue foliage over a garden of yellow, orange & brown flowers. Alternate colourway has a brown & orange tree. 1930

Appliqué Idyll - A crinoline lady in a formal garden beneath a tree, with black, red, black banding. See also Idyll 1930 

Appliqué Lucerne - A castle in a mountainous landscape of fir trees, with castle turrets to the foreground. Colour of sky indicates colourways: Orange & Blue. 1930

Appliqué Lugano - A waterwheel against a building in a mountainous landscape. Colour of sky indicates colourways: Orange & Blue. 1930

Appliqué Monsoon - A yellow & green tree with black trunk on a yellow & purple striped ground against an orange sky. To the left, giant purple flowers rush from the ground and to the right, a green & blue hill capped by an ornamental arch. 1931

Appliqué Palermo - Red sailed yachts against the sweeping bay of Palermo, with a climbing black stemmed floral plant in the foreground. 1930

Appliqué Red Tree - On a green, black & orange striped ground, a tree with black & red saucer shaped fruit against a grey sky. To the left, blue saucer shaped flowerheads. 1930

Appliqué Windmill -A dark blue windmill by a river, against a cloudy red & orange sky and a green & black wood. 1930

Arabesque - An Isnic style design in red, green, yellow & blue, probably only produced as a sample. 1929

Archaic - Vases shaped as classical columns, copied from The Grammar Of Ornament by Owen Jones, as were the designs. 1929

Aura - Clarice Cliff - Etching across the rim of tableware, or the edge of teaware. 1934

Aurea - Alternative colourway of Rhodanthe, with dominant green flowers, with some brown, yellow & pink. 1934

Autumn - Trees with sinuous trunks and large balloon shapes tops by bushes and a small cottage in a wood. Numerous colourways. 1930

Autumn Fruit - A tree with red fruit, and leaves, with black & red banding and brown shading. 1938

Avon - A pen outline design in pastel colours of a bridge over a river and two fishermen, on a green glaze. 1937

Awakening - Essentially the Autumn Crocus design, with a black transfer depicting trees, sometimes Rabbits and/or bats. 1929

Bamboo - An etched design of a brown & orange oriental cottage, with bamboo with green leaves and yellow Rhodanthe style flowers. 1935 

Beach Ball - Two segmented black & orange balls with leaves each side, surrounded by narrow green & orange vertical panels. 1931

Beechwood - A hardened mushroom glaze with a partial decoration of a twig with leaves in shades of brown. 1935

Bermuda - A pen outline design with gnarled tree with a blue, brown & red trunk, blue & yellow foliage on a green/brown ground. 1937

Berries - Red & orange berries, blue & purple leaves, with green & yellow oblongs. 1930

Bignou - A sunburst in green, orange & yellow, a shoulder pattern on tea & dinner ware. 1930

Blue Chrysanthemum - A large handpainted blue flowerhead with orange centre, green leaves and coral red blossoms. 1937

Blue Daisy - A stylised orange, blue & purple daisy painted freehand, with blue & purple banded and striped pattern either side. 1930

Blue Eyed Marigold - Outlined orange flowers with blue centres, honeyglaze leaves and a black ground. Also Green & Brown Eyed Marigold. 1930

Blue Firs - A pen outlined green landscape with blue fir trees, in the foreground a beach and sometimes a cottage. Also Green & Coral Firs. 1933

Blue Ribbon - A freehand floral design with orange flowers against a background of blue, green & yellow "ribbons". 1932

Blue W - The pattern is centred around a central blue 'W' motif and features a number of interlocking elements consisting of circles, curves and oblong shapes in blue, green, yellow, orange, black & lilac. 1929

Bobbins - Blue & green leaves with red & yellow bobbins, often on a Cafe-au-Lait ground. 1931

Bowling - Random horizontal banding with freehand bulls-eye motif. 1929

Braidwood - A floral design of powder blue cornflowers with green leaves above geometric hatching in blue and green. 1935

Branch and Squares - Outlined black, orange or blue leaves on a branch enclosed in irregular squares, painted in random colours. 1930

Bridgewater - A pen outline design of a question-mark tree by a river with reeds and a bridge and cottage in the background. 1934

Brookfields - A pen outline in yellow of a cottage and garden, next to a bridge and ploughed field in green & yellow, the whole design covered with fine blue & yellow lines, omitted on awkward shapes. 1936

Broth - Shapes resembling the cooled fat on top of broth.  Colourways Orange & Red. 1928

Bruna - All painted in blue to give the impression of a stencil, the pattern shows a single tree with spear shaped leaves and flowers in an undulating landscape. 1931

Brunella - A freehand stylised floral motif in rust & blue, similar to the Ravel design. 1930

Buttercup - Cafe-au-Lait all over design in yellow, green and red combined. Paint finish is very thick and has textured feel. 1931

Butterfly - Colourful freehand butterflies against a striped ground. 1929

Cabbage Flower - Green & grey flowers with red & grey leaves growing from brown earth against a woven yellow sky. 1934

Café - A panel design of grey & black squares and oblong shapes with either red or orange as an additional colour. A black panel with either red or orange dots is also incorporated. 1931

Canterbury Bells - Freehand blue, orange & yellow flowers with a brown cafe-au-Lait ground above and yellow below. 1932

Capri - A garden with shrubs, bushes & trees, the whole design covered with fine lines. Colourways: Orange, Green & Blue. 1935

Caprice - A landscape with fantastic stylised trees and an elaborate bridge. First produced as an on-glaze decoration on a grey glaze, then for the Inspiration series. 1929

Carpet - Curvilinear shapes, stripes & dots in coral red or orange with grey & black. Colourways: Orange & Red. 1930

Castellated Circle - Abstract design of circular and castellated shapes, some with solid colour, sometimes with triangles behind. Numerous variations on colour. 1929

Celtic Harvest - A range with surface ornamentation of corn sheaves and fruit, with handpainted coloured detail, produced on a large range of tableware & fancies, with a number of glaze variations. 1937

Chalet - Colourful flower beds by a path leading to a chalet, against a green Cafe-au-Lait style sky. 1936

Cherry - Blue coloured berries and purple leaves with orange detail, outlined in green. 1929

Chestnut - A range of shapes with embossed leaves in natural shades, on a matt mushroom glaze. 1937

Chintz - Water lily buds & leaves forming a fabric like design. Colourways: Orange (colours used, orange, black, tan & red), Blue (colours used blue, green & pink) & Green (colours used greens, browns & yellow). 1932

Chippendale - An outlined light brown tree with gnarled branches bearing pink & blue flowers on the left of two hills. On the opposite hill, small flowering plants with yellow & pink flowers. 1939

Christine - A central printed floral motif, with handpainted hatching around edge. Colourways: Blue, Yellow & Brown. 1934

Circle Tree - A freehand spiky black tree with rainbow coloured circles behind. 1929

Clouvre - An Inspiration ground with freehand on-glaze handpainted designs including Water Lily, Butterfly, Bluebell & Tulip. 1929

Clovelly - Red-roofed houses and tall poplar type trees leading to the sea, with a small island in the distance. 1937

Coastal Oak - A thinly drawn freehand coastal landscape with a stylised tree with very large red & brown oak leaves. 1934

Comets - Interwoven comet shapes with small cloud like motifs at their heads, their tails painted in various colours. Pastel version produced. 1929

Coral Firs - A black pen outline landscape with coral and brown fir trees, a black roofed cottage and cliffs. Also Blue & Green Firs. 1933

Cornwall - A tree in a stylised garden in shades of green. The rarest colourway of Moonlight & Devon. 1933

Corolla - A slim branched tree with Rhodanthe style flowerheads and green leaves. Colourways: Green & Orange. 1938

Cowslip - Stylised leaves in a mottled Cafe-au-Lait style ground. Colourways: Blue, Yellow, Green & Brown. 1933

Crazy Paving - Irregular continuous panels in blue, green, yellow & pink, giving the effect of crazy paving. 1929

Crayon Scenes - Produced using ceramic crayons, a set of at least twelve sketched landscapes drawn freehand in natural colours, featuring very English scenes with churches, trees & bridges, some were named. All examples decorated by paintress Rene Dale. 1934

Crepe de Chine - An all over floral design, with printed outline in black, hand enamelled in green, yellow, red & blue. 1933

Crest - A black & red crest motif against a ground of overlapping crescent shapes in blue & green. 1933

Crocus  - Freehand crocus flowers with thin green leaves, produced in a number of colour variations:

Autumn - Flowers in orange, blue & purple. 1928

Blue - Flowers in shades of blue. 1935

Purple - Flowers in shades of purple. 1935

Spring - Flowers in pink, yellow & blue. 1933

Summer - Flowers on a Summer glaze. 1934

Sungleam - Flowers in orange & yellow. 1931

Cruiseware - Stylish designs of people in scenes on a 1930s Cruise liner, produced in lithograph outline with painted detail. Produced on amoebic shaped saucers to hold a teacup & biscuits. 1934

Cubist - An extremely strong abstract design of interlocking geometric shapes in orange, blue, green, black & yellow. 1929

Damask Rose- A body produced by mixing slip with a pink colorant. Once cast and fired, the pieces are given a clear glaze. Pieces then painted with small fruit or floral motifs. 1930

Daphne - A simple stylised branch with red, blue and yellow blossoms, with scattered coloured dots. 1936

Delecia - The original Delecia effect was produced with raw colour mixed with turpentine which was allowed to run all over the ware, leaving a pattern of randomly coloured drips. 1929

Delecia Citrus - Oranges & Lemons, with blue & green leaves, above green & grey Delecia runnings. A rare version has gold & silver fruit. 1930

Delecia Nasturtium - The Nasturtium design above Delecia runnings. 1932

Delecia Peaches - Very similar to Delecia Citrus but easily distinguished as the leaves are just light green and the fruit has a crescent shape to the right. 1932

Delecia Poppy - Large poppy flowers in red, yellow & purple above Delecia runnings. 1932

Desny - A simple three colour pattern of two orange triangles against a blue ground, outlined in black. On some examples, both triangles are placed together to resemble a YoYo vase. 1929

Devon - A pendulous red tree, with garden of stylised flowers underneath in orange, green & blue. See also Cornwall & Moonlight. 1933

Diamonds - A very bold abstract/geometric design consisting of two adjacent panels. One is of a simple diamond shape, the other with square, curved and circular motifs. The colours used were black, blue, orange & yellow, but variations are known. 1929

Dore - Printed outline of an oblong with an abstract design and a floral motif over one side. Produced exclusively for Harrods. 1930

Double Diamond - Diamond shape within another, on orange & yellow background. Outlined in black.  1929

Double V - Black & yellow 'V's dividing panels of orange, blue & green abstract shapes. Variations also known. 1929

Dryday - A thinly drawn brown freehand tree with green leaves, with white egg shaped flowers in the foreground. 1937

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