Denby Pottery "Danesby Ware" ranges

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Hi

I hope you can help me. I have been given this piece of pottery but don't seem to be able to find out much about it or anything like it. It is marked Bourn Denby. I would be grateful for any info you may have.

Thanks

Forgot to mention, its about 18 inches high!

Bourne Denby is the early name for Denby Pottery, which still exists today. The parent company Denby Holdings now owns Poole Pottery as well, also Burleigh.

Joseph Bourne & Son Ltd was founded in 1809 and made Denby Ware in Bourne's Pottery, Denby, Derbyshire. All Denby pottery is stoneware.

Danesby Ware is the general name for their 1930's Giftware. Pieces in this particular glaze are known as Orient Ware.

http://www.denby.co.uk/all-about-denby/denby-history/pcat/denby_history/

Hi Gareth

Thanks for the info. Do you have any more info on this piece?

Such as?

I was hoping to find out if it was part of a particular range, if it had a name or description so i could do more research. And if anyone happens to know the value?

thanks

Tony

Hi Tony I think Gareth has told you more or less everything. The range was called "Orient Ware" and, as Gareth said, that refers to the glaze. The shape would have been used with other glazes and the Orient Ware range included other decorative ware shapes of the time.

It was introduced in 1926 and 15 to 20 years ago there was a collector's market for this kind of thing. It was something that I would have sold at the time for £40 to £50. These days it isn't really collected and, as your piece isn't an uncommon shape or glaze, it is worth whatever you can get for it. Maybe half the amount above if you were lucky.

Sadly, that has happened to much of the pottery that was collected in the 1980s/1990s.

Thanks for your help. I had been looking on the web for ages and hadn't found anything in these colours this big! I'll put it back under the atars for now or maybe on the patio!

I forgot that it was that size so it is a little more unusual and would have sold for twice what I said in the 1990s and a little more than I suggested now.

I think that you a wise to keep it though and I have a couple of large Denby items put away with the hope that one day they might fetch what they did in the past.

Any info on this little Denby vase appreciated.

Look under the ID My Pottery Danesby Ware thread from a day or so ago.

Thanks for that. Good info. Shame about the fall in value but I'd be okay with the £30 mark as it isn't something that fits in with my personal collection.

3 more Denby Bourne to add to the thread - I was very temped by the squarish planter on the left, and the jug in the middle. The photo doesn't do justice to the blue glaze of the jug.



Base of the jug:

Well for all you collectors out there you may be interested to know that the large Vase went on ebay for £176 So don't fret if you have a loft full of the stuff!

The large vase is/was a "Derwent" vase (large size). Pretty rare, and in a good colour.
They were used as stick-stands so are often damaged.

An unknown design thay turns up occasionally. It presumably had a name, but I've
never found out what it was. Late 1930s, and probably by Alice Teichtner, 9 in high.

A rare pair of unmarked "Silver grey" candlesticks, NIB, deigned by Alice Teichtner 1931.
Influenced by, and often mistaken for, the stonewares of her native Germany.

Bourne Denby bowl, 'Denby Grey'
The blue decoration round the sides was a bit messy so left it.

Silver-Grey, rare items C1931, always a bit crudely decorated.

If it ever goes on the sale shelf I'll reconsider

Denby "Danesby Ware" was a generic name, used from c1920 through
into the mid 1930s, on most of the decorative ranges of that period.

If they were actually marked as such, usually along with a Bourne
Denby England mark, it can be found on:

Tube-lined wares (though usually completely unmarked)
Electric blue
Orient ware
Pastel wares
Meadow green
Moorland
Florentine
Folkweave
Antique green
Silver-grey
Garden ware
Ripple
Some of the larger animals (eg, rabbits and dogs)
Some Cottage Blue tableware pieces.