GEORGE THOROGOOD "Rotten to the core"
If you are at all interested antique porcelain, you should keep this handbook It summarizes the history of the leading companies.
This section is not a pottery marks directory, but says the company's founder, at what time, and what happened afterwards.
A - Z directory starts immediately below a brief introduction.
Bone china is a type of porcelain with animal bones added baking temperature must be high and therefore expensive to produce.
The first company to develop a reliable recipe was Spode in 1799.
It is specifically an English Development Germany, France and the rest of Europe stuck to their old, recipes in traditional Chinese porcelain only animal bones.
Bone china is a very pure white as porcelain and white European standard can be cast so thin to be translucent, but is still surprisingly resilient to chip relative to smaller dishes as ironstone and earthenware.
antique porcelain has always been expensive and difficult to work.
It wasn t until the late 1800s that the majority of manufacturers listed below learned how to use the porcelain for serious producing Wedgwood, be very careful on luxury porcelain, chose not to go to china in the beginning.
They let companies like Rockingham and Spode do the work of avant-garde Rockingham unfortunately didn t make a lot of old antique porcelain making businesses do not survive the current day.
New managers with tighter marketing plans have taken their place in the last 60 years or so they are treated in a separate list here - modern porcelain manufacturers bones.
The A - Z ANCIENT CHINA MAKERS BONE STARTS HERE.
Founded in 1876 by William Alsager Adderley Longton, Stoke-On-Trent, England also became known in the 1950s as Royal Adderley as backstamp Ridgway listiings see below.
Aynsley is a leading company with a long history, so it's own page.
Founded in 1894 Staffordshire, England by James W Beswick.
Established first in the 1890†of tableware manufacturer as well as ornaments, Beswick were also on the bandwagon to cats and dogs Staffordshire, most of which were not marked and hard to say other manufacturers Staffordshire the period.
Not really an antique china manufacturer as they progressed in China bones than in the 1930s Today†collectors are listening to Gilbert Beswick who innovated in 1930†s with its high temperature China terracotta figurines bone his idea was to imitate the quality Royal Doulton bone elegant old lady figures China.
It was Lucy Beswick in 1947 which suggested using the illustrations of Beatrix Potter.
The family sold to Royal Doulton in the light of 1960†to figure †Flowers†Duchess product from 1954 to 1967 - a classic failure at the time, so now rare and sought; £2,000 over 4000 USD would be the current value, not a bad investment for 5 shillings 25 cents These items are future old bones Articles China - so watch out for them.
Coalport is a first bone china manufacturer in the UK and therefore has is own page, click here to Coalport page goes to a separate page.
Colclough has a long hisory He needs a separate page Click here to page Stanley Royal Colclough is a backstamp Colclough and also has a page to itself - see Royal Vale Stanley Royal is also a backstamp HJ Colclough China also has a page all to itself - see Vale Royal.
Founded around 1790 Staffordshire, England by Thomas Green.
Accounts vary as to the exact date of the Crown staffs has been properly set up high-Thomas Green was employed at one of Burleigh pottery factories in 1790, but records show that it has formally based its Churchill work in autumn 1795.
The company that only later in their history started to call Crown Staffordshire, began large-scale production of quality goods to famous works Minerva in Fenton, staffs the site where the Crown Staffordshire operated from up the 1950s to the early 1800 s According to their own backstamps and the input plate of the Minerva factory, the date of establishment was in 1801.
However, under the trade name †Green†in various forms, Staffordshire Crown was used by the company in 1897. In contrast to well connections documented Royal Crown Derby, I can†t find any references to the royal patronage that authenticate using the trade name †Crown†If you have information about this, please use the contact form.
Originally a ceramic manufacturer, the company produced porcelain from 1933 to Minerva specialist working in Fenton They are technically old bone China manufacturers but are important enough to be included here in 1973 when the brand was bought by the Wedgwood group, the Greens were still based on the original Minerva factory, which employs more than 200 designers.
Wedgwood stopped using the name of the Staffordshire Crown in 1985 but still owns the brand Jack Jones, sometimes described as one of the best ever bone tableware porcelain designers, worked for the company since 47 Today he is probably best known by collectors for the variety of birds he carves - large cockatoo small wrens Truly Jones adds great value to the brand, giving them a higher status in the area bone of antique porcelain collection that the brand is no longer manufactured, yet has a long history, adds value to the secondary market.
Founded in 1793 Staffordshire, England by John Davenport.
John Davenport began her fine bone production in China began in 1815, making him a key player in the region of ancient porcelain collection bones before he produced the terracotta pottery and tableware 1793.
The company remained in the family for almost 100 years before being taken over by Coalport in 1887 the most popular model number Davenport 6 - Flying Bird design - now highly sought after.
Delphine is a contractor backstamp Hudson, MP, philanthropist and Lord Mayor of London in 1866, he was named china manufacturer for the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne.
He managed to buy the interests of the family and Spode became an owner named Spode China Today owner Spode china company Royal Worcester equally famous and together they form a group that is one of only rivals the United Kingdom to the powerful in terms of Wedgwood fine china producing group.
For more information on the Stanley royale backstamp, go to my page about Stanley Stanley is a Royal backstamp Colclough.
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