Anthony Shaw

Anthony Shaw	Tunstall	1851	1858
Anthony Shaw	Burslem	1858	1900

Earthenware manufacturer at Tunstall (1851-6) and then Burslem (1857-1900), Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Shaw started manufacturing earthenware in 1851 at Cross Street (now Oldcourt Street), Tunstall. He was only here for one year.
In 1852 he moved to works at Newfield, Tunstall.
By 1855 Shaw was exporting ware to the United States (granite-ware & cream ware) and to South America (luster and painted ware) - in 1855 Shaw was awarded a medal at the Paris Exhibition.
1856 - Shaw registered what was to become his famous "Tea Leaf" design, Anthony Shaw is considered to have produced the original Tea Leaf motif on his Sydenham, Niagara Fan and Chinese Shape body styles.
Around 1857 Shaw rented the Newport Works - a manufactory with 6 ovens in Newport Lane, Burslem - together with the adjacent Newport House.
Around 1860 Anthony Shaw built a new works alongside the Newport Works. He called this the Mersey Pottery - after Liverpool's River Mersey. Liverpool was the port where pottery was taken for export to the Americas. Both the Newport and Mersey Potteries were built on the bank of the Trent and Mersey Canal.
In the 1861 census he is recorded as living in "Newport Hall" Burslem with his wife Jane, their four children and four servants. His occupation is listed as "Earthenware Manufacturer employing 290 hands".
In 1882 one of the sons joined the business and marks generally included "& Son"
In 1898 the style became "& Co"
Anthony Shaw died in 1900 and he business was taken over by A. J. Wilkinson Ltd who already operated at the adjacent Newport Pottery.

see a short biography on Anthony Shaw

This shard from a piece of Anthony Shaw pottery was dug up in Delamar in August 2023

Delamar is a ghost town in central eastern Nevada, US.
Between 1895 and 1900 $13.5 million of gold was mined there

impressed mark on the shard:-
A Shaw, Warranted
with printed Royal Arms

Shaw used this style of mark between 1857 and 1882

Beginning in the 1840's, English potters began to ship white ironstone ceramic ware to the U.S., decorated with copper lustre bands and/or simple motifs, made exclusively for the American market.

Anthony Shaw is considered to have produced the original tea leaf motif, registered in 1856. The tea leaf motif was made by dozens of English and American potters until the beginning of the 20th century.

more information on this pattern at www.tealeafclub.com

A Shaw POMONA is the pattern name	Warranted Staffordshire A Shaw mark used on ware with the Willow pattern
Anthony Shaw HONG is the pattern name	A Shaw COREA is the pattern name