Understanding SylvaC
SylvaC is decorative English pottery made by Shaw and Copestake at the Sylvan Works in Stoke-on-Trent. The name is a contraction of that factory — not a separate company.
Shaw and Copestake, Sylvan Works, SylvaC
Shaw and Copestake were the makers. The Sylvan Works was the factory. SylvaC is the trade name that collectors use for the animal figures, character jugs, vases, planters and novelty wares that came out of that works through much of the twentieth century.
That history is why identifying a piece is not simply a matter of finding the word “SylvaC” on the base. Early wares can be unmarked. Later pieces may carry a mould number, an impressed mark, a printed stamp, a daisy mark, or only a paper label that has long since washed off.
Falcon Ware — the tableware and ornamental line associated with Thomas Lawrence — became connected with the same story. Collectors meet both names on marks and in mould-number lists; the Falcon Ware and history pages explain how.