PSC03032

This is an unusual double marked porcelain perfume bottle with basket weave design. The off-white underside is marked with a blue crown design surmounting the initials TTC entwined. The base also carries Rd No 122218 (indicating this ceramic design was first registered between 1889 and 1890) and a design number 2235. The screw cap, with cork liner, is silver hallmarked for Birmingham 1890 and carries the maker’s initials CS. The bottle is 1 ½ “ / 40 mm tall and 1 1/8 ”/30 mm at it’s widest 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 Tunnicliffe & 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.