Maker: John Dimmock & Co.

Place: Hanley, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 7 June 1880

Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches diameter

Maker: John Dimmock & Co.

Place: Hanley, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 7 June 1880

Dimensions: Unknown

Maker: Steele & Wood

Place: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1874-1900

Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches

Maker: Minton's China Works

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1875

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Notes: Pattern #1409

Maker: Minton's China Works

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1875

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Notes: Pattern #1409

Maker: Minton's China Works

Place: Stoke, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1875

Dimensions: 6 x 6 inches

Notes: Pattern #1409

Maker: Doulton & Co.

Pottery: Nile Street Works

Place: Burslem, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: c. 1890-1920

Dimensions: Unknown

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: The Bridge of Sighs is located in Venice, Italy and was built in 1600. The enclosed bridge passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contino, whose uncle Antonio da Ponte designed the Rialto Bridge.

The bridge's English name was bequeathed by the poet Lord Byron in the 19th century as a suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.

Built in the closing years of the 16th century, the Rialto Bridge is the oldest bridge across the canal and is renowned as an architectural and engineering achievement of the Renaissance. The architect, Antonio da Ponte ("Anthony of the Bridge," appropriately enough), competed against such eminent designers as Michelangelo and Palladio for the contract.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: Camden Place in London, England takes its name from the antiquary William Camden who lived in the former house on the site from c. 1609 until his death in 1623. The present house was built shortly before 1717 and was given a number of additions in the late-18th and very early-19th centuries by the architect George Dance the Younger. In about 1760, the house and estate were bought by Charles Pratt, the Attorney General, and later Lord Chancellor. Pratt was ennobled in 1765, taking the title Baron Camden, of Camden Place and in 1786 he was created Earl Camden.

A later occupant of the house, from 1871 until his death there in 1873, was the exiled French Emperor, Napoleon III. The Emperor's widow, the Empress Eugénie, remained at Camden Place until 1885. 

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 6 inches tall, 6 3/4 inches diameter

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches

Notes: The top cartouche depicts College Green, a three-sided plaza in the center of Dublin, Ireland. On its northern side is the Bank of Ireland, which until 1800 was Ireland's Parliament House. To its east stands Trinity College Dublin.

The round cartouche depicts Blarney Castle, a medieval stronghold in Blarney, near Cork, Ireland and the River Martin. Though earlier fortifications were built on the same spot, the current keep was built by the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a cadet branch of the Kings of Desmond and dates from 1446. The famous Blarney Stone is located at the castle.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: Unknown

Notes: Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London.  It is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world. The clock first ticked on 31 May 1859.

The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in the Palace's 990,000 square feet of exhibition space to display examples of the latest technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. It was later disassembled and reassembled in a pleasure park near London in Sydenham.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches

Notes: The Governor General's Residence in Ottawa, Canada is Rideau Hall, the historic residence and office of every Governor General since Confederation in 1867. The elegant 19th century Victorian style residence is a national historic site rich in architectural significance. 

The historic City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire Style to be built in the United States and is now one of the few that survives. The design originated in France during the Second Empire, the reign of Emperor Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 7 inches diameter

Notes: The Grand Battery in Quebec, Canada was built in 1859. It consisted of twenty-four 32-pound cannons and four mortars. It sat 200 feet above the St. Lawrence River and extended to the very edge of the cliff.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 7 9/10 inches diameter

Notes: The Boston Custom House was designed in a neoclassical style by architect Ammi Burnham Young. This building was a cruciform (cross shaped) Greek Revival structure that combined a Greek Doric portico with a Roman dome design resembled a four-faced Greek temple, topped with a dome. The Lieutenant Governors Residence in Toronto was built in 1868 as a grand vice regal residence in downtown Toronto, and was designed in the Second Empire style. 

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches diameter

Notes: The lion sculpture, located in a former sandstone quarry in Lucerne, Switzerland, was done in 1820-21 after a design by Bertel Thorvaldsen and in memory of the Swiss Guard who lost their lives protecting the Royal family during the French Revolution.

The second cartouche depicts the Monument of Columbus in Genoa, Italy. The sculptor was Alfredo Noack (1833-1896) and it was completed sometime between 1870 and 1880. Christopher Columbus is depicted with long, flowing hair and dressed in a tabard and large open cloak. His left hand rests atop an anchor to signify his maritime heritage On the four corners of the base are four smaller statues, representing Piety, Science, Constancy and Prudence. In between these are bas-reliefs depicting scenes from Columbus’ life.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 7 1/10 inches diameter

Notes: Opened in 1847, the Toronto Normal School was a teachers college, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario College of Art & Design, and the Ontario Agricultural College all originated at the Normal School's campus, officially named St. James Square, such that the school became known as "the cradle of Ontario's education system." The school's landmark Gothic-Romanesque building was designed by architects Thomas Ridout and Frederick William Cumberland in 1852.

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches

Notes: Completed in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.

The second cartouche shows the Pantheon in Rome, which was commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD. The nearly-contemporary writer (2nd-3rd c. AD), Cassius Dio, speculated that the name comes either from the statues of so many gods placed around this building, or else from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens. 

Maker: Wallis Gimson & Co.

Pottery: Lane Delph Pottery

Place: Fenton, Staffordshire, England

Material: Earthenware

Date: Rd. 27 May 1884

Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches

Notes: Wolfe's Monument marks the very spot where the larger-than-life English general James Wolfe received his fatal musket wound in the closing hours of the furious and pivotal Battle of The Plains of Abraham just outside Quebec. History buffs may recall that it was this battle, with the English invading force victorious at the end, which ultimately gave the British Control over the French colonies in Canada.

Ponton Chateau may refer to the Berlin Palace on Museum Island. The palace was the main residence of the House of Hohenzollern from 1443 to 1918. Extended by order of the later King Frederick I of Prussia according to plans by Andreas Schlüter from 1689 to 1713, it was considered as a major work of Prussian Baroque architecture. The former royal palace was one of Berlin’s largest buildings and shaped the cityscape with its 60 metres (197 feet) high dome. Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, the East German authorities demolished the palace in 1950.