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"Botanical" red anchor plate with spray of fruiting Indian bean tree, c. 1755. The factory history, before the merger with Derby, can be divided into four main periods, named for the identifying marks under the wares, although the changes in marks do not exactly coincide with changes in materials or style.
Johnson Brothers was a British tableware manufacturer and exporter that was noted for its early introduction of "semi-porcelain" tableware. It was among the most successful Staffordshire potteries which produced tableware, much of it exported to the United States, from the 1890s through to the 1960s. [ 1 ]
W H Grindley was an English pottery company that made earthenware and ironstone tableware, including flow blue. The company was founded in 1880 by William Harry Grindley, JP (b. 1859) of Tunstall , Stoke-on-Trent.
"Potter's attendant Ken Russell stacks plates into the drying oven", 1942. J & G Meakin had close family and corporate affiliations to the potteries Johnson Brothers, and Alfred Meakin Ltd, which explains why many patterns are similar, if not almost exactly the same. There was a takeover by J. & G. Meakin in 1968 of Midwinter Pottery.
'Liverpool China Manufactory of Messrs Reid and Co, proprietors of the China Manufactory, have opened their warehouse in Castle Street and sell all kinds of blue and white china ware, not inferior to any made in England, both wholesale and retail'. Transfer-printed plate from the James Pennington factory.
It was developed in the 19th century by potters in Staffordshire, England, as a cheaper, mass-produced alternative for porcelain. [ 4 ] The formulation quoted in the original patent (Brit. Pat. 3724, 1813) by Charles James Mason, is four parts china clay , four parts china stone , four parts calcined flint , three parts prepared ironstone and a ...
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Pottery from the United Kingdom, vessels and other objects made from clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard, durable form. Major types include earthenware , stoneware and porcelain .