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YORKSHIRE POTTERIES, ETC. 
Marked pieces of Denaby Pottery are of extreme rarity. I have 
only seen one, and that was kindly given to me some years ago by 
Mr. Bowman Heald, of the Kilnhurst Pottery ; it is a fine plate, 
with birds of paradise, groups of flowers and foliage, printed in a 
peculiar shade of blue on a white ground. The mark, printed on 
the bottom, is the Staffordshire knot, with 
JOHN WARDLE & CO. 
above, and 
NEAR ROTHERHAM 
DENABY POTTERY. 
below. Another mark was the same knot, with the initials 
W. W. DENABY POTTERY 
and jewitt gives the same knot with the words 
WILKINSON & WARDLE. DENABY POTTERIES. 
DENHOLME POTTERY. 
This pottery was established between 1780 and 1790 by Samuel 
Catherali, son of Jonathan Catherall of the Soil Hill Potter) 7 , and 
this was continued by the family until August, 1893, when Mr. 
Nicholas Taylor purchased the same. He gave up the pottery in 
1907, but for a year or two after this date, worked with a small 
kiln in the old Wesleyan chapel at Denholme. Mr. Taylor marked 
some of his most particular pieces, “ N. Taylor, Denholme,'' in 
incised writing letters on the bottom of the ware. I have an 
inkstand so marked, in the so-called “ Snail Horn " ware, made at 
all these South Yorkshire potteries, yellow and brown, giving a 
sort of striped and banded appearance. 
The usual slip decorated articles, puzzle jugs, etc., were made 
here with a light and a very dark brown glaze, almost black, the 
same as in the other South Yorkshire coarse ware potteries. W e 
have several pieces in our Collection. 
