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East Liverpool Pottery operated in East Liverpool, Ohio from its construction in 1844 until it ceased production in 1939. The site was made up of five buildings and 2 kilns . The company's bottle kilns , their shape resembling a bottle, were used for the production of pottery ware.
The company was founded in Hanley by Richard Dudson in 1800. In its early years it produced a variety of domestic ware. In the 1880s James Thomas Dudson, great-grandson of the founder, identified a need to serve specifically the hospitality market, in view of the increase in travel created by the railways, and made significant changes in production.
Pottery produced by Thomas Forester & Sons had a number of marks throughout their 82-year history. 1877 to 1883 on the Majolica ware the term Forester was usually impressed in the base. From 1883 to 1891, official works by the pottery company were initialed, T F & S .
2001 - the company purchased T. G. Green and worked to revive that pottery's Cornish Blue kitchenware line. 2004 - The Tabletop Company purchased Mason Cash in April 2004, thus forming The Tabletop Group. [1] 2006 - Production in Swadlincote was stopped, with the machinery moved to Portugal where production continues. [3] [5]
Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", [1] an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art ...
Pottery making was briefly resurrected under The Bovey Pottery Company Limited in 1994 by House of Marbles, who occupy the site in the present day. New products were in the style of 1930s Dartmoor Ware but the venture only lasted for six years until 1999 when it was decided to focus on the other more profitable industries of games and glass.
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Portmeirion Pottery began in 1960 when pottery designer Susan Williams-Ellis (daughter of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, who created the Italian-style Portmeirion Village in North Wales) and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, took over a small pottery-decorating company in Stoke-on-Trent called A. E. Gray Ltd, also known as Gray's Pottery.