KITCHENWARE, TABLEWARE and BATHROOM

(other than jugs, plates, dishes, & open bowls )

Many of these utilitarian items originate from the period 1942-45 when wartime restrictions were in force. Most are rare today, known only from surviving shape books.

Click on the links to go to the catalogue pages.

Jugs, and plates, dishes & open bowls are omitted here because they have their own dedicated pages.

Pots with lids

* Early Series 72 Butter tub with lid

* Early Series 83 Plug-shaped lid, plain lip on pot

* Later Series 75 Flat lid, indented lip on pot

* Later Series 117 Army pickle jar

* Later Series 74 Butter tub with lid

Un-numbered PPP like Early Series 83 & 72

Later Series 76

Cups & mugs Various sizes and shapes

Most of the cups and mugs in the catalogue are from the Later Series (see list below), generally dating from 1942-45 when wartime restrictions were in force. The image database contains just one Early Series example but this surviving fragment of a shape book from the Early Series period shows that others were produced too.

The 'saggar' referred to in the top left panel is a clay box used in the kiln during firing. 'Mr.Hawkins' is of course Reg Hawkins, one of the Premier Pottery's principals and the firm's decorator. Perhaps an example of the Golf Mug might yet be found inside a trophy cabinet somewhere?

The same book also refers to a 'Tea Set' but has no sketch.

* Early Series 87 (no example recorded)

* Early Series 89 PPP mug

* Later Series 73

* Later Series 80

* Later Series 82

* Later Series 114 & 115 Army mugs

* Later Series 116 Army cups

* Later Series 129 Mug, Migrant Camp

* Later Series 138 Tankard

* Later Series 147

* 'A' Series / Kerryl A48

J.Maas Antiques, Tyabb, Vic.

Army mugs

Un-numbered, unsigned.

Shaving Mugs & inserts

Various shapes. All are Later Series, produced 1942-45 under wartime restrictions. There are no examples in the image database; they are known only from the shape books.

Later Series 65 & 66
Later Series 78 'Coloured Shaving Inserts, or Jelly Mould'
Later Series 81 & 82

Liqueur sets

Later Series 160 Baitz jugs and Glasses
Later Series 165 Liqueur flask with stopper

Flasks and glasses were produced to order for Baitz Liqueurs of Melbourne.

Various shapes of glasses were produced but no recorded example is numbered.

Collection; Shepparton Art Gallery

Gift of Maurice Stebbings 1989.39

Ramekins and ramekin saucers

(many have no recorded example)

* Later Series 83 Ramekins, 2 sizes

* 'A' Series A1 Small ramekin

* 'A' Series A2 (& M17) Large ramekin

* 'A' Series A16 Large ramekin with two handles

* 'A' Series A17 Small ramekin with one handle

* 'A' Series A18 Large ramekin with one handle

* 'A' Series A19 Small ramekin with two handles

* 'A' Series A20 Small ramekin with one handle

* 'A' Series A21 Small ramekin with one handle and lid

* 'A' Series A22 Large ramekin with two handles and lid

* 'A' Series A23 Small ramekin, no handle

* 'A' Series A24 Large ramekin, no handle

* 'A' Series A26 Ramekin saucers, 2 sizes

The 'A' Series was produced alongside 1950s Later Series. Production continued and expanded at Kerryl Pottery after Premier closed in 1956, but the ramekins listed above were definitely in production before then. For a general note on the 'A' Series click here.

Most of the above list are known only from shape-book sketches. Examples are recorded for A1, A2, A23 and A26 only.

Collection; Stuart Lawson

Un-numbered ramekins, like Later Series 83 but

with painted decoration.

Tyabb Packing House, Tyabb, Vic.

Ramekin A1 and Saucer A26 s

Tea pot holder

* Later Series 149 (no example recorded)

Toothbrush holder

* Later Series 148 (no example recorded)

Milk saver

* 'A' Series / Kerryl A14

Bread crocks

* Later Series 119 Two sizes (no example recorded)

Salt & Pepper shakers

No example known, just a shape-book fragment

from the Early Series period.

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Early Series/PPP 89

Teapots and Coffee Pots

* Later Series 123 (no numbered example recorded)

* Later Series 133 (no example recorded)

* Later Series 134

Un-numbered teapots and coffee pots

Egg cup

* 'A' Series / Kerryl A4

Egg cup with dished base

* Later Series 96

Egg cup with wide base

* Later Series 78 (no example recorded)

Eric Smith

LEFT Collection; Michael West

auspottery.com

RIGHT Long Gone Antiques & Collectables, Warrnambool Vic.

Flask with handle and stopper

* Early Series 461

Plain beakers

* Later Series 79

* 'A' Series / Kerryl A3 (no example recorded)

Collection;

Judith Matheson

Graham Lancaster Auctions

Long Gone Antiques & Collectables,

Warrnambool, Vic.

Base incised Remued.

Height; 14.5 cm.

Shapiro Auctioneers, Sydney

Base stamped Premier Potteries, Oakover Road, Preston

Height; 18 cm.

Shape book 'C'

Small conic-shaped teapot. No example recorded, known only from this faint shape-book sketch. No shape-number mentioned. Height 10 cm.

Image; Catherine Webb research collection

Un-numbered. No base images. The egg-cup is like Later Series 96. The teapot perhaps resembles Later Series 123 although that is labelled 'Coffee Jug'.

Sugar bowls

* Later Series 76 Bowl with lid

* Later Series 125 (no example recorded)

There were also several sugar bowls in the PPP range, most belonging to cream jug and sugar bowl sets. No numbered example of any is recorded. They are known from shape book entries only.

See Early Series numbers 56; 66; 68; 69; 74.