1940s Royal Worcester Blue Sprays Teapot

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This is not exactly Royal Worcester teapot in the Blue Sprays pattern. There are two problems-at least. First, this item … Read more This is not exactly Royal Worcester teapot in the Blue Sprays pattern. There are two problems-at least. First, this item is not marked Royal Worcester. Second, while the pattern is the same, the pieces of the pattern are not in the same order. I have found three companies who make this Blue Sprays pattern, but none of them exactly match this piece or have this makers mark. I do not know who the makers mark belongs to. Google Lens identified the pattern as Blue Sprays.

A very well informed man named Mike shared this information with me on this pattern. “The only place you will see an exact reproduction of your Pine Cone pattern is on another piece of Booths pottery and even then you will sometimes find variations. The original pattern was a Worcester pattern of 1770-1785 and there were various component parts which had been hand engraved on copper plates, there were slight variations due to the human element. Different coppers were made in different sizes and when these were transferred to tissue paper fro placing on the wares the "transfer girls" would cut out various components to suit the object.Later Caughley and Lowestoft copied these patterns but as they had to engrave their own copper plates differences were bound to occur. Even the Chinese copied this pattern at the request of the Dutch East India Company for export to Europe. These Chinese wares are hand painted but look like printed wares and are of course on hard paste porcelain not English soft paste and date to the latter part of the 18th century.Various other companies have copied this pattern over the last 250 years and some have purposely altered/up-dated it to suit there customers or changing tastes. The mark on your items which are pottery not porcelain signifies it was made as" their" up-dated copy of the original Worcester pattern by Booths Limited of Tunstall in the staffordshire Potteries from 1905 onwards. Booths closed in 1948. I would imagine the decoration is a mixture of printed and hand decoration.” I have not been able to verify this, but he seems very certain and is likely correct.

This is a white coffee or teapot with a blue floral design that includes butterflies and blue trim. The handle on the lid is flower shaped with a raised leaf design and the pot is marked as shown. This pot has a repair on the spout as shown. The repair is clean and well done, but there may be some glue residue on the spout end because it has a rough touch.

The coffee or teapot measures 3.50 inches wide and is 4.00 inches tall to the rim and 5.75 inches tall to the top of the flower shaped handle. This pot holds about two cups of liquid.

Other than the repaired spout-the coffee pot has no chips, cracks, crazing or other damage. See less