made in Greenock, Renfrewshire
This detail show two marks of the Clyde Pottery Company of Greenock in Renfrewshire. One mark is transfer-printed, the other impressed. They are on the base of a transfer-printed earthenware soup plate dating from between 1863 and 1900.
The transfer-printed mark is of a hump back bridge over a waterfall with the text, 'BRITISH RIVERS' on the bridge and 'C.P. & Co' (for the Clyde Pottery Company) in the water. The impressed oval mark contains a sailing ship surrounded by the text 'CLYDE POTTERY/GREENOCK'.
A pottery at Greenock was established in 1815 under the title of 'The Clyde Pottery Company'. It was run by Thomas Shirley & Co from the 1840s until 1857. Thereafter, it continued as the Clyde Pottery Company Ltd until 1863. From then until 1900 it was known as the Clyde Pottery Company and from 1900 until its closure in 1905, it reverted back to Clyde Pottery Company Ltd.
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