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Posted by Andrew J Pye on July 16, 2008, 4:26 pm, in reply to "davenport friburg"
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Hi Susie
I always get confused between the similar patterns that the Davenport pottery made in the last 25 years or so of its life, what with Montilla, Friburg, Geneva and Rhine or Rhenish Views and more. We do not see Friburg that often in England, so I wonder if it was made primarily for export. Don't know just a thought.
There is no catalogue or surviving record that lists what Davenport made in a particular pattern (as far as I know!), so you can only rely on what you find at auction, on ebay, in museums etc etc and hope that a lifelong collector of Friburg pops up with a "definitive" list. Certainly there was a good range of dinnerware made, some teaware, toilet ware (ewers and bowls etc). I have seen a covered dish in a museum described as a butter dish, but thought it was more likely a soap dish from a toilet set.
The TCC database is of makers and their patterns and does not extend to listing the items produced in the various patterns, except in so far as different items are illustrated by chance for a manufacturer and pattern.
If you are so inclined you could launch www.davenportfriburg.com as your website, display your collection to date and invite more info and images. I think you would be surprised at how they would steadily trickle in (that website would score highly with Google for those search terms). Customers of ours launched www.spodeitalian.co.uk to showcase their collection and invite contributions and have been very pleased with the results and we run a site dedicated to asiatic pheasants pattern www.asiaticpheasants.co.uk, to which people send contributions on a daily basis.
Regards
Andrew
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