As far as the 'granite ware' part of the mark is concerned....
While I can't comment on the specific piece in question, it's worth
remembering that just because a mark claims that the vessel is "granite
ware" or "stone china" or "berlin ironstone" or "opaque pearl stone", etc,
etc, etc, etc, etc, doesn't necessarily mean that it's anything of the sort.
There are no truth-in-advertising laws for 19th-century pottery, and the
mark on the back of a vessel is no more reliable a guide to what the vessel
actually is than the label on a 19th-century medicine is as to what that
medicine can actually cure.
In other words, in some cases you might get lucky, and the vessel/medicine
is what it claims to be - but I wouldn't rely on it.
Which would usually lead to yet another long discussion of the
whiteware/ironstone/white granite issue... But I don't have time today.
Alasdair Brooks
on 12/4/03 3:37 am, Timothy B. Riordan at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Coysh and Henrywood, "Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery,
> 1780-1880", p. 287 report that "Poonah J." has been found on a dish made for
> the Gateshead Railway. They suggest that it may be the name of a retailer or
> company offical but that it has not been further researched.
>
> Tim Riordan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Pykles [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 1:19 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: POONAH "Granite Ware"
>
>
> I was recently reading an article written some 30 years ago in which the
> author
> describes a kind of pottery that he could not positively identify. Apparently,
> it is a kind of blue transfer ware with a mark that says "Granite Ware" and
> under this the word "POONAH" and the letter "J." A simple google search did
> not
> turn up anything other than a few similar pieces being sold at antique
> auctions. Not being a ceramic expert myself, I was hoping someone knows more
> about this allegedly elusive type. Thanks.
>
> Benjamin Pykles
>
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