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Davenport Pottery was an English earthenware and porcelain manufacturer based in Longport, Staffordshire. [1] It was in business, owned and run by the Davenport family, between 1794 and 1887, making mostly tablewares in the main types of Staffordshire pottery .
The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Tunstall and Stoke (which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent) in Staffordshire, England. [1] North Staffordshire became a centre of ceramic production in the early 17th century, [2] due to the local availability of clay, salt, lead and ...
Staffordshire bone china covered chocolate cabinet cup, with enamels and gilding, c. 1815–20, Victoria and Albert Museum. Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery , [ 1 ] the raw materials for which include bone ash , feldspathic material and kaolin .
This began production in 1802, and was to remain one of the family's main sites, and a pottery until recent decades. In 1808 he gave John and William, then in their early twenties, shares in the business (which became "Ridgway & Sons"), and also began to make bone china. Job died in 1814, when "John and William Ridgway" or "J and W Ridgway ...
Serving plate with flow blue transfer printing, c. 1890 Two versions of the "Britannia" lavatory bowl, 1890s - 1905. Johnson Brothers was a British tableware manufacturer and exporter that was noted for its early introduction of "semi-porcelain" tableware.
In 1900, the company employed over 700 people in the Staffordshire area and was seen as one of the largest producers of majolica in England in the late 1800s. In their prime, the company had showrooms in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Before 1900, the company was known for producing a vast range of Victorian majolica. Techniques were later ...
Staffordshire figures are a type of popular pottery figurine made in England from the 18th century onward. Many Staffordshire figures made from 1740 to 1900 were produced by small potteries and makers' marks are generally absent.
Its china and earthenware products were many and varied although the major output was table ware. In the late Victorian period the Art Nouveau style pottery and Intarsio ranges designed by art director Frederick Alfred Rhead were extremely popular but Shelley is probably best known for its fine bone china “ Art Deco ” ware of the inter-war ...