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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 ...
Collection of Staffordshire figures in a museum in Delaware, US [1]. 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 abs
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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.
The six towns of the Potteries were the centre of the ceramic industry in the United Kingdom. The Trent and Mersey Canal which opened in 1777 provided cheap transport for the china clay from Cornwall, the bones and the coal from local collieries , and a smooth passage to Liverpool to export the finished goods.
The county symbol, the Staffordshire Knot, is seen on an Anglian stone cross that dates from around the year 805. The cross still stands in Stoke churchyard. Thus the Knot is either i) an ancient Mercian symbol or ii) a symbol adopted from the Irish Christianity, Christianity having been brought to Staffordshire by Irish monks from Lindisfarne about AD 650.
Churchill China traces its origins back to 1795 and the foundation of its first factory in what later became Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. [1] As a manufacturer of the finest ceramic tableware. The company markets products for both the hospitality and retail markets, exporting to countries across the world.
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 ...