A romantic Alpine view.
This antique blue and white transferware carries the "Venus" pattern by Podmore, Walker & Co., with a richly detailed, storybook landscape of a chalet-style house, sweeping trees, a distant lake castle, and mountains rising in the background. A border of scrolling florals, fine geometric bands, and small landscape vignettes wraps around the rim of the bowl and the neck of the pitcher, and the cool, soft blue gives every inch a dreamy, misty quality.
Together, they began life as a washstand set, an ewer and basin that stood in the bedroom in the days before indoor plumbing. The pitcher is a classic baluster-form ewer that originally formed part of a lady's wash basin set, with a wide pouring spout and a large handle. That is part of the charm. A set like this would have been the centerpiece of a Victorian morning routine, and the makers decorated them as beautifully as any dinner service. The pitcher here has a faceted, paneled body that lifts the scene into a pleasing sculptural form, and the basin has a gently shaped, angled rim.
The pieces are marked P.W. & Co., for Podmore, Walker & Co. of Tunstall, Staffordshire, a respected pottery that operated from about 1834 to 1859. The Venus pattern was printed on their durable "Pearl Stone Ware," and the pattern was made in several colors, with the soft blue being a perennial favorite. These are early Victorian pieces, roughly 170 to 190 years old.
Today, they make wonderful display pieces. Use the washbasin as a statement centerpiece on a dining table or console, or tuck it onto a vanity or washstand as it was meant to be. The pitcher is lovely holding branches, dried stems, or fresh flowers, and the two together make a nostalgic vignette for a bedroom, bath, or entry.
Pitcher has significant crazing and a crack at the bottom that is visible on the inside of the pitcher as well. Please reach out for more pictures if you have not seen it on a Live event.
Tucked inside every order, a little something for first time Tavola customers — a hand-finished vintage passport notebook. Note the piece, the moment, the person you gave it to. One day these pieces will sit in someone else's hands — and they'll know it came from yours.
A romantic Alpine view.
This antique blue and white transferware carries the "Venus" pattern by Podmore, Walker & Co., with a richly detailed, storybook landscape of a chalet-style house, sweeping trees, a distant lake castle, and mountains rising in the background. A border of scrolling florals, fine geometric bands, and small landscape vignettes wraps around the rim of the bowl and the neck of the pitcher, and the cool, soft blue gives every inch a dreamy, misty quality.
Together, they began life as a washstand set, an ewer and basin that stood in the bedroom in the days before indoor plumbing. The pitcher is a classic baluster-form ewer that originally formed part of a lady's wash basin set, with a wide pouring spout and a large handle. That is part of the charm. A set like this would have been the centerpiece of a Victorian morning routine, and the makers decorated them as beautifully as any dinner service. The pitcher here has a faceted, paneled body that lifts the scene into a pleasing sculptural form, and the basin has a gently shaped, angled rim.
The pieces are marked P.W. & Co., for Podmore, Walker & Co. of Tunstall, Staffordshire, a respected pottery that operated from about 1834 to 1859. The Venus pattern was printed on their durable "Pearl Stone Ware," and the pattern was made in several colors, with the soft blue being a perennial favorite. These are early Victorian pieces, roughly 170 to 190 years old.
Today, they make wonderful display pieces. Use the washbasin as a statement centerpiece on a dining table or console, or tuck it onto a vanity or washstand as it was meant to be. The pitcher is lovely holding branches, dried stems, or fresh flowers, and the two together make a nostalgic vignette for a bedroom, bath, or entry.
Pitcher has significant crazing and a crack at the bottom that is visible on the inside of the pitcher as well. Please reach out for more pictures if you have not seen it on a Live event.
Tucked inside every order, a little something for first time Tavola customers — a hand-finished vintage passport notebook. Note the piece, the moment, the person you gave it to. One day these pieces will sit in someone else's hands — and they'll know it came from yours.
