Blue Elephant - Price Bros (not SylvaC or Beswick)

by **Josordoni** September 3rd 2013, 2:06 pm

This elephant came in with a variety of Sylvac and Bourne Denby pieces. Not marked other than Made in England, the finish looks very familiar, but I am really not sure which factory?

Thanks for any help,

by **Potty** September 3rd 2013, 2:51 pm

Could be Price Bros.

by **Josordoni** September 3rd 2013, 3:11 pm

yes did cross my mind. But it is a nicer finish than their matt glaze, more like stoneware. Did Bourne Denby make elephants?

by **Potty** September 3rd 2013, 3:47 pm

Moulding, glaze, mark, clay and way the eyes are painted look right for Price Bros to me to be honest.

Denby did do elephants, but I've not seen one like this.

by **Josordoni** September 3rd 2013, 4:21 pm

That has to be good enough then! thanks a lot xx

by **Potty** September 3rd 2013, 4:41 pm

There was a black and white picture somewhere online with quite a few of the animal figures they did, not sure if elephant was one of them. Think it was on an American sales website.

by **Josordoni** September 3rd 2013, 5:11 pm

hmmm if you ever find that link, I'd be really pleased to have it. Just had a quick google search and can't find anything.

by **Potty** September 3rd 2013, 6:35 pm

Found it

http://image0-rubylane.s3.amazonaws.com/shops/victoriasjems/01170.3L.jpg?52

by **Josordoni** September 4th 2013, 10:06 am

Hurray!! and there he is!! in pride of place. Thank you so much x

That scared cat on top shelf is such a SylvaC rip off!!

by antoinep October 8th 2014, 5:32 pm

Hi,

I bought this small jug because I like the blue glaze on it.

I'm wondering about "Price England". I've seen similar things by Gibsons, but didn't find anything about "Price" yet (hard to search on Google for a word like "price" indeed).

Smallish but pleasant item.

Thanks!

Price Bros. (Burslem) Ltd Bluejug1_zps23a74b98

Price Bros. (Burslem) Ltd Bluejug1_zps23a74b98

Price Bros. (Burslem) Ltd Bluejug2_zps7ef2f46e

by **NaomiM** October 8th 2014, 6:40 pm

Early form of Price Kensington would be my guess.

http://www.thepotteries.org/photos/price/

by **denbydump** October 8th 2014, 7:15 pm

This mark was used by Price Bros from 1925. So certainly pre-war.
(It becane Price Kensington in 1962)

by antoinep October 9th 2014, 1:05 pm

Thanks a lot Denbydump & NaomiM

by nickponty August 17th 2020, 10:22 am

Along with the other piece just posted (sorry for the multiple messages!) we've also picked up a light blue Price & Son jug, the design is called 'Cecil' - but we haven't been able to find any other similar examples or any more information on age, etc... Has anyone come across something like this, or this design before - we think it's probably 1930's but there seems very little information. We can find a few pieces from Price & Son but from later, and they seem to more novelty pieces. Would love to know any more info if you know anything?!

Many thanks, as always.

Nick