Like many American pottery proprietors, William Bloor was somewhat peripatetic, moving from New Jersey to Ohio and back again a number of times. His East Liverpool, Ohio, pottery was only in business for two years, yet he was able to produce quality glazed porcelain and Parian ware. Perhaps with an eye toward marketing, the tulip pattern, as shown here, is drawn on English prototypes, and Bloor’s diamond-shaped mark consciously emulates the English mark of registry. 

Related Examples: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton (Frelinghuysen 1989, no. 46).

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.