Staffordshire | Science Museum Group Collection

Mug, ceramic, depicting 1830s express train with two carriages and carriage truck in pastoral scene, poor condition. Ceramic mug with ‘Planet’ class stylistic transfers from 1830-40. Bute cylindrical body and half heart pulled handle. Depicting a decorative transfer of a locomotive 1830s express train with two people on the foot plate driving the engine, two carriages with passengers and a riding carriage on a flat bed at the end. The train is passing a mountainous pastoral scene with one dwelling and a church. The overall image is well stencilled in a dark brown or black slip. About 2/3 of the foliage through the scenery is glazed over in lime green with a large brush. The train engines smokestack is similarly filled in with lime green glaze. Engine name plate is filled in with ochre glaze. The 3 engine bay decorative panels are filled in with a red rose glaze. Both passenger carriages have 3 separate panelling’s coloured in with a different colour in order of red rose, ochre, then green. Fabric on the riding carriage being carried on the flat bed is filled in with red rose glaze. The roof of the dwelling in the scenery is filled with red rose.

Early Staffordshire pottery mug

1830-1850

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Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Fowler's phrenological head

Copy of a blood-grouping tile

Statue depicting Florence Nightingale

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

Basin from a pan closet

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

Pottery urn, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1900

Wedgwood pyrometer, 1786

Bubby pot for infant feeding, England, 1770-1835

Figurine of Florence Nightingale and a wounded officer, England, 1850-1870

Blue and white feeding cup, Staffordshire, England, 1820-1860

Figurine of Florence Nightingale and a wounded officer

Mug

Swivel Mounted Muzzle Loading Carronade

Earthenware feeding cup

Staffordshire spill vase with depiction of steam train

Blue and white transfer printed bourdalou or boat-shaped female urinal

Bed pan, earthenware, by Minton, English, 1865

Urinal

Royal visit to Keele University. Queen Elizabeth

Coffee pot, 1996.

Gulley model

Pharmacy storage jar

Pottery syrup jar

Commemorative Mug

Pottery drug jar

Bowl-shaped ceramic mortar with lip for pouring

Crucible with lid

Figure representing Hygieia

Gulley trap model

Earthenware statue

Feeding cup

Pap boat

Daily Herald Contact Sheet; Baking Bread

Spittoon

Pottery syrup jar

Glazed ware Drain Fitting, 1896

Worcester current balance kit, for Nuffield Physics Teaching Course

Earthenware statue depicting Saint Luke reading a book

Glazed ware Drain Fitting, 1896

Glazed ware Drain Fitting, 1896

Replenishing parts for Worcester current balance kit

One of two channel pipes

Staffordshire - Longnor

Ceramic saucer, Pullman

Ceramic mug depicting 2-2-2 locomotive 'Nero'

Hinks liquid oxygen vaporiser c 1930.

Ceramic teacup, Pullman

Early Staffordshire pottery mug