What does the HN number on a figurine mean?

It's the factory's model reference for that figure, and it's quoted freely in titles alongside the figure's name. Across the archive the numbers run from HN 756 at the low end to HN 1914, the latter noted in its title as a first-year version of 1939. Some figurine titles also carry a registered design number.

How old are these pieces?

The dated listings run from 1880 to 1950. The 1930s is the busiest single decade, with the 1920s, 1940s and 1900s close behind. Eleven listings give no year and use Victorian, 19th Century or Edwardian instead, and several titles hedge with a range such as c1922-36. Treat the decade as indicative rather than exact.

Why do jardinieres sometimes come with a stand?

The pot and its matching pedestal were made as a pair and are sold as one lot. Eight of the eighteen jardinieres recorded include the stand. Those eight sit in the upper half of the jardiniere run, and the largest piece in the category with a stated size is one of them, at 19 inches.

Which forms turn up most often?

Figurines and jardinieres. Figurines account for about a quarter of titles and make up the bulk of what's currently for sale; jardinieres are roughly a fifth. Behind them come stoneware vases and art pottery, tea and coffee wares, series ware, and a small run of six orchid-painted cabinet dishes.

What are the unusual one-off pieces?

The category is miscellaneous, and several things appear once and once only. A pair of bonsai planters with a model number, a Kingsware whisky flask, a country-house hot water can. Also a 1905 Nelson commemorative tea set, a biscuit barrel made for a biscuit firm, a silver-mounted tankard, a pair of tazzas, and a group of four seated spaniels.

Are Lambeth and Burslem pieces different?

The factory names appear in titles as identifiers. Lambeth is the London stoneware pottery, and the salt-glazed and Slater's-patent art wares belong to that side. Burslem is the Staffordshire factory added in the 1870s, and the twentieth-century bone-china figures and tablewares come from that tradition. The Royal prefix followed a royal warrant at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Doulton-marked English ceramics, from salt-glazed Lambeth stoneware jardinieres made to hold plants to twentieth-century bone-china figurines carrying a name and an HN number.