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Hundreds of companies produced all kinds of pottery, from tablewares and decorative pieces to industrial items. The main pottery types of earthenware, stoneware and porcelain were all made in large quantities, and the Staffordshire industry was a major innovator in developing new varieties of ceramic bodies such as bone china and jasperware, as well as pioneering transfer printing and other ...
Religious, [28] and temperance subjects were in great demand [29] Staffordshire pottery owners included many Nonconformists, and John Wesley was the post-biblical religious figure most often depicted, with 18 versions of him and his brother from Victoria's reign alone. [30]
There are actually two mills: one is a late 18th century structure which was purpose-built to grind flint for use in the pottery industry, [1] and the other was converted to the same purpose from use as a corn-mill. [2] The mill complex includes a miller's cottage, two flint kilns, a drying kiln and outbuildings, and is adjacent to the Caldon ...
Thomas Forester & Sons was a pottery manufacturer based in Longton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. The company started as Thomas Forester in the 1870s and appeared in the Pottery Gazette regularly during the 1880s. They specialised in the manufacturing of Victorian majolica and earthenware.
Pottery decorated using this technique is known as transferware or transfer ware. It was developed in England from the 1750s on, and in the 19th century became enormously popular in England, though relatively little used in other major pottery-producing countries. The bulk of production was from the dominant Staffordshire pottery industry ...
Industry: 19th-century bone and flint mill built to grind materials for the pottery industry, features working steam engine Ford Green Hall: Smallthorne: Stoke-on-Trent: Historic house: 17th-century timber-framed yeoman farmer's house with 17th-century furnishings, textiles, ceramics, and a period garden Gladstone Pottery Museum: Longton: Stoke ...
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 ...
The Minton Archive is a collection of records for the English pottery firm Minton.The archive was originally housed in the firm's works at London Road, Stoke-on-Trent. It was catalogued by Alyn Giles Jones (1928-2000), Archivist and Keeper of Manuscripts at the University of Wales, Bangor, who acted as archival consultant for the Minton china company.