Teacups

I don't know what this pattern is

I bought the cup recently

for $3

If anyone knows

please let me know

This is Bordallo Pinheiro

Vine Pattern

I recently purchased for $3.50

The Portugese cartoonist, Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro

began creating unique ceramic tiles & pottery at 38 years of age.

He became renowned for some of his creations

and quickly became known as a Master in the pottery

world. Relatively unknown in America, Bordallo Pinheiro

pottery is very popular in Portugal and abroad. The production

facility still exists in Portugal where is started 120 years ago.

Many of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro's works are housed

in a museum in the interior of the factory

where pottery is still produced today.

Faianças Artísticas Bordalo Pinheiro, Ltd,

continues to produce beautiful pottery and dishware

following the design and standards set

forth by Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro over a century ago.

Many of the designs feature animals, fish and

other motifs found in nature. The combination of rich colors

and natural subjects makes the Bordallo Pinheiro

line of pottery highly collectible and still useful in today's kitchen.

Pope Gosser 

Clementine 

I recently purchased this tea cup

for $3

The Pope-Gosser company was organized in Coshocton, Ohio in 1902 by Charles F.  Gosser  and Bentley Pope.  In the beginning Pope Gosser experimented with high quality decorative pieces.  Later on the concentration  was on dinnerware.  The company closed in 1958.

Pope was a skillful decorator

 who was born in England. 

He came to America in 1870                                                                    

  and worked at Trenton until 1891, 

when he moved to Ohio.  

At that time he become manager                                                         

 of KTK until 1903, when he left to

 form the Pope-Gosser 

China Company with Gosser The wares 

were "excellently potted"

 and the shapes were a departure                                                                                              

  from existing models. The company begin to immediately

 produce high grade translucent                                                             

  china for vases, etc.  Not finding the profit in this line,

 the company switched                                                                                          

 to dinnerware which was harder than the

 usual dinnerware of the times.

Pope-Gosser joined the ill-fated 

American China Company in 1929.                                                                                                 

After the demise of that company, Pope-Gosser

 was re-organized                                                                                                           

   in 1932 by Frank Judge.  

The company continued to make                                                                                                                      semi porcelain wares until 1958, 

although the quality of these                                                                                                     

          wares was not up to the 

standards of the old company.

Turn of The Century Dinnerware by Joanne Jasper).

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