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The Ridgway family was one of the important dynasties manufacturing Staffordshire pottery, with a large number of family members and business names, over a period from the 1790s to the late 20th century. In their heyday in the mid-19th century there were several different potteries run by different branches of the family.
The Homemaker range was first produced using the Metro shape created by Ridgway design director Tom Arnold [1] [page needed] (died 2002) and later on the new Cadenza shape. Homemaker was earthenware, transfer printed with a glaze applied on top, which enabled it to be produced relatively cheaply and to appeal to a mass market. Production of the ...
Ridgway (name) Ridgway Potteries, British pottery company established 1794; Ridgway Dynamo & Engine Co, U.S. engineering company; See also. Ridgeway (disambiguation)
George Ridgway found one of the largest caches of Roman and Iron Age coins in England. ... Another three hours of searching turned up 160 more silver coins and some pottery fragments.
J. W. Pankhurst was a manufacturer of stone china and ironstone pottery, located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.. Pankhurst took over the pottery of William Ridgway of the Ridgway Potteries family, who had introduced white granite ware.
Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1815. Operating originally in Vauxhall, London, and later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in the centre of English pottery.
The high-end furniture retailer's mission over the course of its 70-year history is to be both a beautiful and meaningful design source "by bringing together good products, people and values," the ...
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 ...