(2) English Jacob Furnival & Co. Flow Blue Plates. The smaller work has twelve sides and is marked on the bottom as an Ironstone "Shanghae" pattern work, while the other larger piece ha a more scalloped edge and is more floral patterned but the signature is indistinct. 

Largest Size: 13 x 12 x 2 in. 

The firm of ​Jacob Furnival & Co. was first known as Jacob & Thomas Furnival Junior, a father and son company that was founded at the Stafford Street Pottery Works in Hanley, Staffordshire in 1842. They produced an abundant amount of earthenware and ironstone, a durable, heavily-glazed type of pottery developed as a cheaper alternative to porcelain, but after only a year the partnership was dissolved with Thomas taking on all debts. Two years later the newly named firm opened at the Elder Road Pottery Works, as a joint venture between Jacob, G. Oxley, S.B. Taylor, and S.C. Pears. Known for numerous wares including Flow Blue, they dissolved as well in 1852, but Jacob continued to work with various other partners for the next thirty years until his death in 1880, by which time their patterns had been copied to a certain degree by other Staffordshire potteries, mainly due to their popularity with the American market.

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