Percival Vickers: 1847-1848
25 MARCH 1847
Design Number
42296
Lozenge
Description
None
This is a pressed cruet. It has a stopper with circular studs. The body is octagonal with a diagonal criss-cross pattern.
Image
17 JUNE 1847
Design Number
43655
Lozenge
Description
None
This is a bottle or decanter. It has a hexagonal stopper. The body, which is horizontally ridged, widens towards the bottom. The base is a little thicker with a pattern of diagonal crosses.
30 JUNE 1847
Design Number
43850
Lozenge
Description
None
A salt cellar, possibly circular, with an outer edge of vertical half-oval and triangular sections.
5 NOVEMBER 1847
Design Number
46788
Lozenge
Description
None
An octagonal decanter with the same pattern to the body as 42296, but with a more ornate stopper.
5 NOVEMBER 1847
Design Number
46789
Lozenge
(as 46788)
Description
Match box
With horizontal ridging and a crenellated top, this looks a little like a rook from a chess set.
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27 NOVEMBER 1847
Design Number
47334
Lozenge
Description
None
A dish of rounded rectangular shape. The centre has a 4x2 grid of squares containing diagonal crosses. There is a further wavy pattern around the edge of the dish.
11 FEBRUARY 1848
Design Number
49779
Lozenge
Description
None
A sugar basin. There are a number of vertical layers which alternate - half are plain and are topped with a triangular point, the other half contain a grid of 4x2 squares and are topped with a half-oval.
12 MARCH 1849
Design Number
58852
Registered by David Wilkinson of Manchester, believed to be Percival Yates company secretary at the time, before joining Molineaux Webb as a business partner around this date.
Description
Double square pillared sugar basin
Similar to the sugar basin of 1848, but a simpler shape of vertical ridges on the body.
18 JULY 1849
Design Number
61373
Registered by David Wilkinson of Manchester, believed to be Percival Yates company secretary at the time, before joining Molineaux Webb as a business partner around this date.
Description
Bamboo butter (butter dish)
A lidded butter with underplate. The butter has a looped ring on top, with 2 handles to the side pointing upwards at 45 degrees. The body of the butter looks to have applied horizontal bands with a couple of small circular holes.