Belleek Marks :– Painted Decoration Way Numbers - Listing by Pattern

Pattern

Painted No.

BI

BII

BIII

GI

GII

Example Image(s)

Decoration Description

Artichoke

1

2

'Gold' mega hi-lights

Bone China

102

1

H/p small pink roses with gilt. Number not in usual position, but under foot rim.

109

1

H/p flower studies. Double gilt (or brown?) rim with fancy border.

111

1

H/p Lily of valley. Same decoration as Earthenware '111'

112

2

H/p flower studies, wide green rim & gilt dots

114

?

Gilt rim and inner circle, Broad Xfer cross decoration band in gold and black.

115

1

Gilt border detail of line with sequence of 2 small leaves with blue dot. Gilt inner line & simple 'scalloped', line & dot rim.

135

3

Gilt rim, thin black inner line. 

164

1

Broad pink border, gilt rim, centre plain

175

1

Pink ground. Gilt double rim, and hi-lis to handle and spout. 

213

1

Gilt double rim, turquoise border, lower gilt line with gilt dots. Gilt hi-lis to handle. 

215

1

Gilt double rim, turquoise border, lower gilt line with gilt dots. Gilt hi-lis to handle. Looks suspiciously like 213, perhaps  '5' written badly?

232

1

H/p heather study, butterflies, reeds, gilt fancy border

237

1

Wide apple green border, h/p garland of white roses & leaves. Orange & gilt mega jewelled border. Gilt rim & centre border, circle of gilt shamrocks, white centre.

271

1

Wide gilt ornate border and handle with dots. Xfer flower sprays, hand tinted in pink, green and yellow. 

??

1

Gilt rim and ribbon hi-lis. Not sure if this is china or earthenware.

Chinese

1

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Pearl'.

No examples seen to-date

2

6

Gilt rim & detailing on leg & handle, pearl lustre all over finish.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Pearl & Gilt'

3

6

Gilt detailing, chocolate wings, handle, legs, lustre (purple/blue) dragon head, body, centre and border.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Bronzed Green & Gold'

4

1

Mega gilt detailing all over on scales and feathers, gilt dragon feet, chocolate. urn feet.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Lustrous Gilt'.

5

2

Cob lustre handle & feet, pink/purple lustre wings, breast, lid details & beak bridge. NO gilt.

6

2

Chocolate & gilt. NO lustre.

Earthenware

1

1

Fine gilt rim, border of thick brown line, thin black line, gilt simple scalloping with dot and small black triangles with 'tail'

2

4

Dark orange wide border and 2 thin lines. Dark orange inner border. 

3

1

Blue wide border and 2 thin lines. Blue inner border.

Another variation: Thick gilt rim with black geometric pattern (seen on ink well which sits on tray with '1')

14

1

Tan wide and thin borders, Tan thin line around middle and 'arrow' pattern to handle top

30

1

Burnt orange (not tan) wide and 1 thin border. Burnt orange inner line.

58

1

Mid blue broad then 2 x thin and again board borders

62

1

Dark Green broad then 2 x thin and again board borders

85

1

Xfer complex geometric design to rim. Tinted in tan/blue

86

3

Orange wide border & smaller inner border

90

1

Orange wide border, thin gilt line, orange/red thin line.

101

1

Hand painted lily of the valley in greens. GREEN rims and handle detail.

107B

1

Turquoise rim, broad gold Greek key band

111

1

Hand painted lily of the valley in greens. GILT rims and handle detail.

114

1

Double gilt rim and lines on ribbon to handle & rim double gilt line, gilt details, Fine blue line.

117

1

Pink broad border to top and base, bound by gilt lines. Gilt rim top and bottom.

118

1

Xfer roses h/p pink and 2 tone green. Gilt rim, mid line and handle detail.

133

1

Gilt rim with blue inner line.

134

1

Gilt rim with turquoise inner line.

138

1

Gilt rim with tan inner line.

143

1

1

Black rim, inner rim & centre rim. Gold narrow border. Makes a matching set with Pattern X '196'!

149

1

Green/turquoise broad rim, bottom rim and handle detail. Last digit v.diff to read so needs confirmation.

154

6

Either Orange or Mustard (faded?) wide and thin black border. More detail required

155

2

Turquoise & thin black lines & gilt slightly fancy border (dots)

183

1

Wide light blue border with inner thin blue line

196

1

Xfered butterflies, flower sprays and wreaths of leaves, hand tinted in many colours. Gilt rim. 2nd digit v.diff to read, needs confirmation.

212

4

Wide pink band, gilt rim, dots & detail. Gilt hi-li bows to handles & lid, ring handle.

223

1

Turquoise rim and 2 thin adjacent lines

236

2

Xfer Greek/Roman people, chariots and horses, hand washed in many colours. All within a broad black border. Inner Xfer brown border of Greek stylized leaves. Gilt rim.

237

1

Broad mid green border. Fancy Xfer gilt and brown triple line rim. Inner double gilt line and dots.

272

1

Salmon/pink board band between 2 thin black lines. Gold dots under lower black thin line.

294

2

Xfer convolvulus pattern. Hand coloured red, orange/pink, brown.

295

1

Turquoise 'jewels' & raised bands, gilt rim & trim

300

1

Gilt rim, wide turquoise border outlined with thin black line, inner line of gilt dots, gilt detailing.

302

1

Xfer 'Bird on Thorn' with h/p full colours. Gilt rim (3 lines) & handle detail.

307

1

Pink rims and lines, pink border with ovals, mid geometric design band in pink with dots and interlocking reverse 'C's.

308

1

Dark red hi-hi/maroon, gilt rim, gilt hi-li to handles

319

1

Green/dark peacock border, thin gilt rim

322

1

Xfer bird on blossom branch (Belleek registered design). Hand tint in blue, pink and yellow. Gilt rims.

331

1

Broad turquoise border and handle top, edged with blue. Gilt rim and handle detail.

336

2

Broad light blue border to top and bottom. Double gilt rim to top and bottom, Other gilt lines and hi-lis to handle.

349

5

Broad mid blue band, Xfer gilt fancy border of ovals and dots and gilt inner lines.

367

1

Wide red border, outer brown geometric Xfer brown pattern either side of border

372

1

Gilt rim, green border, gilt printed vines leaves/garlands/feathered.

Pattern similar to 375

375

1

Gilt rim, burgundy border, gilt printed vines leaves/garlands/feathered.  Pattern similar to 372

387

1

Xfer 'Japanese' decoration, hand hinted in many colours. Double gilt rim and handle detail.

420

1

Xfer geometric border pattern with yellow wide rim & h/p orange & green

453

1

Xfer dark green brambles, blossom, branches with buds ('Briar'?) with mega gilt hi-lis. Gilt rim and hi-lis to handle

454

1

Xfer dark green brambles, blossom, branches with flowers, grasses with seeds ('Briar'?) with mega gilt hi-lis. Gilt rim and hi-lis to handle. Very similar to 453

526

1

Dark green Xfer for Knockninny Hotel.

528

1

'Thorn' Xfer, 2 tone blue flowers, brown branches

563

1

Xfer black convolvulus, yellow, blue & red/pink (& yellow?) tiny tints. 

599

3

Xfer blue Masonic plate with hand tinted blue symbols and lighter blue rim.

601

1

Xfer 'Japanese' decoration, hand hinted in many colours, but mainly brown. Brown Xfer zigzag border.

657

1

Xfer 'Thorn' pattern in blue with blue, pink and green tints. Number hard to read.

671

1

Xfer 'Leinster' pattern, hand tinted mainly dark blue with yellow centred daisy, brown berries, pink blossom, green leaves

672

1

Xfer 'Leinster' pattern, hand tinted, yellow/brown berries (apples?), red flowers, green leaves, brown stems.

694

1

Xfer brown convolvulus, brown, pink & orange tiny tints.

696

1

Xfer dark green/grey convolvulus, red & brown tiny tints.

813

1

Xfer 'Apple Blossom' pattern tinted with green and brown. Fine brown border to rim. 

830

3

Xfer Imari style pattern and colours in royal blue, orange and gilt. Gilt rim.

849

1

Xfer Multi Col orchid

Echinus

368

1

Cob, blue and pink 'stripes', gilt rim

Erne

1

1

Green tint

Fan

48

1

Plain with orange handle (jug)

277

2

Pink top of panels & handles. Xfer panels of gilt geometric 'scrolls'. Pink handle. Gilt rim & handle cross.

278

1

 ?

Pink side panels alternating with gilt top panels, gilt rim. Pink handle and gilt cross. Cob centre.

348

3

Green panels. H/p panels of brown & green leaves/branches, silver flowers, Gold trim & handles.

353

1

Pink side to panels alternating with Gilt top & sides to panels. Gilt rim. Gilt Handles?

365

2

Pink side to panels alternating with panels of h/p stylized gilt flowers with black and tan leaves. Gilt handle, rim & trim

Finner

1

2

Usual green & brown grasses. Cob to ribs. NO gilt

2

4

Usual green & brown grasses, gilt rim & inner rim. Cob to ribs.

360

6

Gilt grasses and flowers with tan hi-lights. Some gilt sponging affect. Gilt rim, mid, bottom edge and handle. Cob to ribs.

362

2

Gilt, dark green, tan and grey (silver?) leaves and flowers. Some gilt sponging affect. Gilt rim, mid, bottom edge and handle. Cob to ribs.

Grass

1

16

Usual grass pattern colour (often faded to purple or pink). NO gilt.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'No Gold'.

1904 Cat - described as 'Green'

2

17

2

Usual grass pattern colour (often faded to purple or pink), gilt rim.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Gilt'.

1904 Cat - described as 'Green and Gold'

3

2

Usual grass pattern colour, gilt rim, but with PINK detail to ribbon on handle

4

2

Usual grass pattern colour, TURQUOISE (blue/green) rim

5

2

Multi coloured green grasses (similar to usual Finner pattern) but NO LUSTRE like usual grass. Gilt rim.

8

1

COB grasses and seed heads in pink. Plain handle, no gilt

Greek

8

6

Gilt rim and some detail (not as much as '9')

9

5

Gilt rim & mega gilt hi-li'ed detail & 'leaves' 

12

1

Purple lustre ribs and 'leaves. NO gilt

14

1

Gilt rim, edges of reticulations and bottom of leaves with dots. Similar to 20 except no gilt to leaves.

15

1

Green lustre 'leaves' gilt rim & dots at end of ribs & 'leaf' points.

16

5

Purple/Green lustre ribs & leaves, gilt rim

20

1

Gilt rim, edges of reticulations, leaves and bottom of leaves with dots. SUSPECT No, NEEDS CHECKING

20

1

Turquoise 'leaves', gilt rim, edges of reticulations, leaves and bottom of leaves with dots. Could this be 120?

21

1

Turquoise leaves and rim, gilt hi-lis. (More turquoise than '20')

38

1

Mega Gilt rim with dots and & hi-li'ed details, turquoise 'leaves'

??

Black rim and gilt details. 

2 digit number impossible to read.

Hexagon

64

1

Deco h/p 2 blue flowers with orange centre on 2 green leaves on a bar. Li-blue wide border

Lace

1

1

Turquoise rim with a bit of gilt detail.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Turquoise & Gilt'.

2

2

5

Pink lustre 'shapes', moderate gilt hi-li & rim & handle.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Pink & Gilt'

1904 Cat - described as 'Rich' 

3

2

Mega gilt hi-lights & rim. NO other colour. 

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Richly Gilt'

6

3

Gilt rim, inner frill & around centre. Pink lustre 'shapes' & centre detail

Limpet

111A

 1

213

1

Deco. Black handle & rim, orange inner border, cloud design in black, yellow, green

Same decoration as Tridacna '213'

239

2

Wide pale green border, pink (li-orange?) inner border.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

299

1

Deco silver gilt trim, blue clouds & yellow border. 

Same decoration as Tridacna '299'

Misc

1

3

Gilt rim, cob interior (Tumbler)

2

2

Double gilt rim with gilt 'drops' ending in 4 turquoise dots (Tumbler)

2

1

Extensive yellow/cob tints (fish spill)

2

7

Turquoise stripes & gilt to handle & some bows, other bows pink. Gilt rim & trim, lustre garland (Florence Jug).

Armstrong Photo mentions this, but has no description.

3

2

Double gilt rim with gilt 'drops' ending in 4 orange dots, cob interior (Tumbler)

3

1

Turquoise legs & neck stripes, pink leaves with gold & tan feet, Mega gilt detailing. (Amphora)

3

1

Turquoise stripes & gilt to handle & some bows, other bows pink. Gilt rim & trim & garland detail (Florence Jug).

4

1

Extensive pink tints (fish spill)

7

1

Green & pink leaves (alternate coloured stripes to shoulder) with tan feet, (Amphora)

20

2

Green painted shamrocks, alternating green & gilt chevrons. Gilt hi-lis, sandy painted hi-li bottom raised bits. Gilt rim, green handle outline, lines & dots. (Harp Jug). 

21

1

Green painted shamrocks, alternating green & gilt chevrons. Gilt hi-lis, sandy painted hi-li bottom raised bits. Gilt & green rim, gilt handle outline, lines & dots. (Harp Jug). 

137

3

Cream ground, cob interior. Thin orange line to inside rim and bottom, gilt rim and handle. This is the same pattern/shape as Bone China 213/215

219

1

Hexagon shaped bowl. Alternate panels of Xfer flower sprays, tinted in many colours. Gilt rim.

309

1

Gilt rim, blue enamel flowers & brown branches (Saucer only so pattern not identified)

Neptune

113

1

1

Deco. Band of blue, green with gilt fancy rim, green handle.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

118

3

1

Deco. Green feet and handle, ribs in green and yellow lines, gilt box border.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

New Shell

297

5

Gilt rim, lime green wide border & pink flowers 

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

Pattern X

101

1

Completely bright pink ground with broad Xfer gold swag pattern to rim, gold handle

127

2

Plain with wide border in dark peacock blue/green. Gilt rim

128

1

Plain with wide and thin border in burgundy. Gilt rim

191

1

Plain with h/p sprigs of pansies, pink roses, forget-me-not. Xfer Gilt border of wavy line with simple leaves & berries, dots and lines. Gilt rim and inside line. NOTE only cup marked Belleek, saucer matches, but has another manufacturers No!

196

1

Black rim, gold line, thin black line. Makes a matching set with earthenware '143'!

199

1

Gold rim & inside thin line, fancy gold border, pink below border.

213

215

 1

Red (Maroon?) border and thin borders, gilt rim & handle detail.

231

1

H/p butterflies, flowers & grasses all over. Fancy gilt border.

253

3

Gilt & black & orange ornate border with leaves. Mid-green ground, white centre.

Ribbon

114

2

Mid-blue rim, mid & inner circle. 

115

1

Black rim, and 'spokes'

120

Light Blue (Turquoise?) border, inner border & centre surround. 

136

1

Gilt rim & small hi-lis

Ring Handle Ivory

143

3

2

Xfer & h/p pink rose & flower garlands & blue ribbon swags. Gilt rim.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

149

1

Gilt rim, light green border, Xfer ribbons & garlands multi-coloured. Same Xfer pattern as 143.

151

1

Silver rim & handles, Black Xfer inner rim of ivy

196

2

Xfer 'HEATH' design in turquoise (fern & leaf garlands with fruit) hand tinted in orange, pink & yellow. Xfer turquoise border pattern. Gilt rim & handle trim.

215

Red border & circle going round

223

1

Wide Xfer Greek key type gold border. Turquoise ring and gold  to handle, gilt line at base.

248

3

Orange wide rim & ring on handle, black fancy 2nd border

249

2

Orange wide rim & ring on handle, black fancy 2nd border. Very similar to 248 except has extra black line under orange. 

251

3

Plain with burgundy trim. Burgundy handle ring & lines on handle. Gilt rim

255

3

Black/Brown handle, acid etched ring with oval, gilt rim

269

2

Black handle, wide gilt rim with black line underneath.

292

6

 1

Usual Xfer Convolvulus (dog rose), double gilt handle & rim.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Limoges', but no extra detail.

295

7

Xfer Convolvulus, hand wash in li blue, some yellow/brown/pink. Double gold rim. Very like '292'

298

1

3

H/p sprigs small sprigs of blue forget-me-not & green leaves all over. Double gilt edge.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

306

2

Chinese peony Xfer hand painted/enamelled in lots of colours, brown Xfer zigzag pattern border

308

1

Xfer flowers in pink with yellow centres and blue leaves (enamelled?) brown branches. Gilt rim and handle detail. Flowers inside also! Similar to '309'.

309

1

Pewter handle, gilt rim and trim. Xfer flowers blue hand enamelled with gilt branches and centres. Xfer butterfly to interior.

Armstrong Photo describes this as 'Limoges', but no extra detail.

311

6

Li-blue broad band & handle. H/P pink flowers (green/blue centres) & sprays, green grass

345

3

Double gilt rim & inner gilt loopy line. H/p in many colours, grasses (with roots) butterflies, heather. 

364

1

Gilt rim & handle hi-li. Gilt leaves brown twigs, cob interior

721

2

Black & gilt wide pattern border, light green inner wide border

BLYTHE

7

Deco Half border yellow with green & black & silver rim. Orange/Black/Green deco sprig.

Brentwood

2

Dotted wavy gilt border. Looped multi-col enamelled garlands, gilt rim.

Shamrock (low)

2

1

Gold shamrocks, branches & handle. Brown rope to lid handle.

6

2

3

Usual colour, gilt rim.

(Note. Tall Shamrock '6' can be lustre and gilt rim)

9

9

Lustre shamrocks (2 tone blue & green) & handle, plain handle ribbon. Often faded to pink!

26

Heavily gilt, pale moss green & celery lustre

117

1

Deco. Yellow/orange flowers, black & orange centres. Platinum gilt handle & rim.

1937 Cat- D# against colour picture, no description.

135

1

Deco. Orange flowers with black dotted centres. Platinum gilt handle & rim.

140 -S

1

Deco. dark orange flowers with green middles.

153

3

Deco. Pink /mauve flowers with orange middles. Platinum gilt handle & rim.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

185

5

Deco. Blue/orange/yellow flowers with green flowers. Platinum gilt handle & rim.

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

Shamrock (Tall)

2

6

1

Gold shamrocks, branches & handle. Brown rope to handle.

3

1

1

Gold shamrocks & with brown (no gilt) handle. Similar to Shamrock '2'

4

1

COB Shamrocks, Gilt ribbon & rim

5

1

Gold shamrocks, green/brown branches & handle. Gilt rope to  handle. Similar to Shamrock '2'.

6

4

Lustre shamrocks, handle & ribbon, gilt rim. Often faded to pink.

8

1

BLACK shamrocks, brown handle, gilt rim

9

9

2

Lustre shamrocks (2 tone blue & green) & handle, plain handle ribbon. Often faded to pink.

Shamrock Harp

185

1

Deco. Blue/orange/yellow flowers with green flowers. Platinum gilt handle detail & rim. Same as Shamrock '185'

1937 Cat - D# against colour picture, no description.

Shell

1

2

Tea ware: Blue coral, pink shells (like '3'), with gilt rim and shell outlines.

1

4

Dish: Plain with cob coral. Only 'Decoration Number' that has no decoration!

1/1

2

Pink shells and coral. Usually this common decoration way has no number. Only instance of a number with this format.

2

4

1

Pink coral, gilt shells & rim. 

2

1

Purple lustre coral. 

3

15

Turquoise/blue coral & pink edged shells

5

1

Pink coral & green shells.

6

2

Turquoise coral & rim. Lustre interior.

13

2

Orange coral, cob interior

Thorn (Japanese)

1

1

Brown branches, feet & handle with gilt detailing. Gilt flowers & black. Gilt rim.

2

3

Pewter branches, feet & handle, web. Delicate orange rimmed flowers with gold centre & dots. Wide gilt rim. Cob?

4

2

Chocolate branches, handle & feet. 'Nail varnish' effect pink flowers. Wide gilt rim.

5

9

Gilt branches, feet, handle & rim. Dark silver/black flowers & dots.

6

3

Chocolate branches, feet, handle & rim & dots. Gold flowers & spout rim. NO Cob

7

1

Black/Pewter branches, feet, handle & rim. Orange rimmed flowers & dots. Cob to part of saucer centre. Similar to 8, but with not so much cob.

8

5

1

Black branches, feet, handle & rim. Orange/pink rimmed flowers & dots. Cob to interior & all of saucer centre. Similar to '7', but with more cob.

9

3

 2

Gilt branches (2-tone gilt/copper near body), feet, handle & rim. Pink flowers & dots

10

10

Cob branches, feet & flowers, inside? Brown spiders web.

1904 Cat - no description, but cheapest decoration way. 

11

1

Tan handle, branches & feet. Black (pewter?) flowers & dots

12

5

Pink handle, feet, & branches. Gilt flowers, black dots

13

1

 1

Cob? handle, feet, & branches. Black (silver?) flowers & dots. Tan web and spider.

14

7

1

Blue 2-tone branches, feet, flowers & dots. Gilt rim. Gilt web, blue insects and spider.

1904 Cat - no description, but same price as '42' 

16

2

1

Brown 2-tone branches, feet & handle. Turquoise flowers & dots, yellow centres. Gilt rim

19

1