Figure 24 Cup, Lewis Pottery, 1829–1837. Cream-colored banded in brown and white. H. 1 3/4". Four large sherds, all apparently clear-glazed with very fine crazing, over a cream-colored body, assembled into an S-curved teacup, the flaring rim thinned at the edge. A small hole between the sherds indicates where a handle may have been attached. Decorated with bands of colored slip, the lower line of brown glaze has completely peeled away, perhaps because it was applied onto the tan slip and not directly onto the body. The shape of the cup, with a different handle, can be found among the early numbers—131 and 136—in the first pattern book of W. Ridgway & Co., a firm established early in 1831. Vodrey must have adapted the shapes he admired among the imported Ridgway designs he had seen at Mr. Kerr’s “house of splended ware from Allcocks, Ridgeways,” which he wrote about in 1836. The Kerrs later operated a “China Hall” in Philadelphia at the time of the Centennial in 1876, at 1218 Chestnut Street, and another in Ireland.
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