Deakin & Bailey pottery punch bowl, documentary IMPERIAL FAIENCE mark, 1828-30

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Petal lobed bowl with short foot moulded with beaded swags, printed in mulberry & brightly enamelled all over with a series of birds flowers & grapes on a fine leaf ground.   

Large flamboyant mark,

crown with ‘IMPERIAL FAIENCE’ above ‘D&B’ ,

for Deakin & Bailey,

1828-30

This bowl is a ‘connecting link’ piece, the shape being identical to those recorded elsewhere marked for Deakin & Co, which according to Godden was at the Waterloo Works, Lane End, 1833-41. The D&B on this mark must relate to the earlier short-lived partnership of Deakin & Bailey, 1828-30.

A quick check in Coysh & Henrywood’s ‘Dictionary of Blue & White’ reveals the following entry:

‘Deakin & Bailey – Lane End, Staffordshire.  One printed pattern …. is known marked wth the name of this firm… Another design, titled ‘Villa Scenery’, bears the initials D&B and may have come from this pottery’.      This bowl proves this to be correct, and further adds the group of items marked ‘IMPERIAL FAIENCE’ to known Deakin & Bailey, Warterloo Works, products.

Short crack to side, very hard to spot 
21cm wide, 10.5cm

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