Jug
An Art Deco jug designed by Keith Murray for Wedgwood.
Keith Day Pierce Murray MC, RDI, FRIBA (1892-1981) trained as an architect, but also designed pottery, glass and furniture.
He was introduced ...
Vase
A terracotta Watcombe Pottery Prattware hand-painted vase.
G.J. Allen founded the Watcombe Terra-Cotta Clay Company in 1871 in Torquay, Devon. After Allen’s death the company was bought by Evans & ...
Manufacturers' Agreement on the Price of Crates - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This notice was delivered to Mr. Wood of Burslem.
Of crucial importance to local pottery manufacturers was the price of packaging.
While the price of wares could be agreed and standardised, the ...
Manufacturers' Agreement on the Price of Crates - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
While the wholesale price of wares was often agreed across the Potteries, the cost of straw and crates for packaging was sometimes less predictable.
Five local pottery firms here announce their decision ...
Vase
'Elton Ware' vase made and designed by Edmund Harry Elton (1846-1920) of the Sunflower Pottery, Clevedon Court, Somerset.
Vase
Stoneware vase covered in metallic gold crackle glaze, with painted mark. Made and designed by Edmund Harry Elton (1846-1920) of the Sunflower Pottery, Clevedon Court, Somerset.
Souvenir mug
A lead-glazed pearlware or earthenware mug or tankard by Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem. The transfer printed illustration shows Enoch Wood and his son riding their horses with a dog running alongside.
Tea cup and saucer
Tea cup and saucer with ‘Wild Geese’ design by Peter Scott. Midwinter’s Stylecraft range.
W.R. Midwinter of Navigation Road, Burslem, were best known for table wares but also made figures and "fancies". ...
Sugar bowl
A lidded sugar bowl from a stoneware ‘Stonehenge Blue Moon’ teaset designed by Eve Midwinter for the Midwinter pottery.
W.R. Midwinter of Navigation Road, Burslem were best known for table wares but ...
Coffee cup and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer in Quuensberry Sienna pattern made by W.R. Midwinter Ltd.
W.R. Midwinter of Navigation Road, Burslem, were best known for table wares but also made figures and "fancies". They ...
Horse figures
Horse and foal figures by Beswick.
J.W. Beswick was founded in about 1892 by James Wright Beswick and his sons John and Gilbert. From 1896 it operated from the Gold Street Works in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. ...
Kitchen ware
Kitchen storage jars with daisy and cyclamen designs in the ‘Botanic Garden’ range designed by Susan Williams-Ellis for Portmeirion.
Portmeirion Pottery was founded by Susan Williams-Ellis and her ...
Kitchen ware
Kitchen ware in the ‘Botanic Garden’ range designed by Susan Williams-Ellis for Portmeirion. The sugar bowl and pepper shaker with Barbados Cotton Flower design, the salt shaker with Viola design.
Portmeirion ...
Vase
A Doulton Lambeth vase designed by Edith D. Lupton who worked at Doulton’s Lambeth works between 1875 and 1890.
Mark on base: ‘Doulton Carrera Lambeth’.
Trio
'Florina' Coronation Ware trio of cup, saucer and plate by T.W. Barlow & Son, earthenware manufacturers at the Coronation Works, Commerce Street, Longton.
Thomas Waterhouse Barlow was in partnership ...
Trio
Cup, plate and saucer made by the Empire Porcelain Company of Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The Empire Porcelain Company was in business by 1895 and its original partners were made up of members of the ...
Vase
A Doulton Lambeth vase designed by John Broad who worked at Doulton’s Lambeth works between 1873 and 1919.
Mark on base: ‘Doulton Silicon Lambeth’.
Vase
Vase by Bernard Moore.
Formerly of Moore Bros., Longton, Bernard Moore (1850-1935) is noted for producing Flambe Glaze ware during its revival in the early 20th century. The Moore Brothers occupied ...