PSC03031

This porcelain perfume bottle is enameled and gilded in a decoration of gold leaves and blue flowers. The underside is marked with a blue crown design surmounting the initials TTC entwined. The base also carries Rd No 74857 (indicating this ceramic design was first registered in 1887) and a design number 2036. The screw cap is silver hallmarked with the maker’s initials CS FS for Cornelius Saunders & Francis Shepherd. The bottle is 2 ½ “/ 60 mm tall and ¾”/20 mm diameter The symbol TTC on the base is for Taylor Tunnicliffe & Company. This is of particular interest as their work of this nature is very rare. Thomas Taylor and William Tunnicliffe founded the firm in the year 1867 for the purpose of making specialised pottery articles. It achieved world fame in the manufacture of high-grade ceramics. It appears Wedgwood took over Taylor Tunnicliffe and Company in 1898 and only continued to make decorative pottery until the end of 1899. The new company then switched to making electrical insulators only, hence the new company Taylor Tunnicliff & Co Ltd.(Note spelling change)A trade mark is identified in ‘Koala’s New Dictionary of Marks—Pottery and Porcelain 1850 to Present’ as:– Taylor, Tunnicliffe & Company Hanley, Staffordshire, England Earthenware, porcelain, printed ca. 1875-1898.