• From 1861 to 1873 operated as as Turner & Tomkinson. Around 1872 John Tomkinson retired and the business was carried on by George Wardle Turner and his sons under the style of G.W. Turner & Sons.

• From c.1887 to 1892 they also operated at the Alexandra Pottery, Scotia Road, Tunstall

• "Victoria Works. — Established and built by Mr. John Tomkinson in 1858, and carried on by him and Mr. G. W. Turner under the style of "Turner & Tomkinson" until 1873, when Mr. Tomkinson retired. The business is now carried on by Mr. Turner and his sons, under the style of "G. W. Turner & Sons" The goods produced are the ordinary printed and enamelled earthenware in dinner, toilet and other services, &c., for the home and colonial markets. The mark used is simply the initials of the firm."  Jewitt, L. The Ceramic Art of Great Britain (1878) 
  

The Phileau pattern - there were at least twelve examples of this pattern with various aesthetic style borders and different central scenes featuring lakes or the sea.

Found (2026) on the shore of the Mississippi around old steamboat landings in St. Paul, Minnesota, US.

The mark is for the Phileau pattern - this example depicting a costal scene with sailing ships and cliffs. 

printed Royal Arms mark

1891-95 

'ENGLAND' was added to comply with the US McKinley Tariff Act of 1890.

Hand-painted Aesthetic Movement shell dish 

"There is, they say, a secret well,
In Ardennes' forest grey,
Whose waters boast a numbing spell,
That memory must obey." 

This shell-shaped dish is decorated around the rim with the opening stanza of The Well of Oblivion by Reginald Heber (1783–1826). The poem describes a mythical spring hidden in the Ardennes forest whose waters have the power to erase painful memories of lost love. 

The use of a recognised literary quotation reflects the Victorian taste for sentimental and romantic decorative wares, demonstrating that G. W. Turner & Sons produced ornamental art pottery alongside their more familiar transfer-printed domestic ceramics. 

Turner's  Tunstall   England 

printed Royal Arms mark

Turner Rd 185915 

impressed registration number 

- the registration number 185915 shows that the dish shape was first registered on the 7th January 1892 to GW Turner & Sons at the Alexandra Works, Tunstall - 

G. W. T. & Sons

1873-95 

G. W. Turner & Sons
Tunstall 

1873-95 

printed Royal Arms mark

1891-95 

- more on the Victoria Pottery - 

Subsequently the works were operated by Alfred Meakin

From c.1887 to 1892 G W Turner & Sons also operated 
at the Alexandra Pottery, Scotia Road, Tunstall

- more on the Alexandra Pottery - 

Subsequently the works were operated by Johnson Bros