Most of this cream-ware was transfer-printed, the Caxtons of Staffordshire had found blank spots enough to fill on their white ware, and in filling them they have left us a permanent record of popular feeling which was at the time strong enough to induce them to rush into print on every conceivable subject with queer engraved decoration and whimsically illiterate verse.
The names are arranged alphabetically, and, where of interest, the class of ware associated with the potter is given.
| William Adams
(of Greengates)
| 1787–1805 | Fine jasper ware of the highest
quality. Stoneware and blue-printed
ware.
|
| J. Aynsley | 1790–1826 | Silver lustre. Transfer-printed
ware. Melon- and barrel-shaped
teapots. |
| Batty & Co. | | Vases and jugs, classic figures as
frieze, printed in under-glaze blue
touched with vermilion. |
| E. J. Birch | | Black basalt ware of good quality
(sometimes marked with E.I.B.
impressed). |
| Bott & Co. | | Busts painted in colours. Vases
transfer-printed. |
| J. Clementson | 1832–1867 | White ware blue-printed with
foreign scenery. (Marked with
name and phœnix.) |
| Clews | 1814–1836 | Stoneware jugs. Blue-printed
cream ware. Picturesque views
and subjects after Wilkie's pictures,
Rowlandson's Dr. Syntax, Don
Quixote, &c. |
| Close & Co.
(Successors to W.
Adams & Sons, of
Stoke.)
| from 1843 | Cream ware with printed decoration
in brown. |
| Cookson & Harding
C. & H.
(late Hackwood.)
| 1856–1862 | Cream ware blue transfer-printed. |
| Davenport (Longport)
(Firm continued
till 1886.)
| 1793–1834 | Cream ware painted and printed.
Handles in form of dolphins. Plates
and dishes—dragons and fret border
printed in blue; ground pencilled
in scale pattern. |
| Eastwood | 1802–1830 | Vases small, jasper, Wedgwood
style; stoneware blue and buff. W.
Baddeley, of Eastwood, is believed
to have used this mark, frequently
found. |
| Hackwood | 1842–1856 | Cream ware painted with knights
and armed figures. |
| Harding | 1862–1880 | Blue glazed earthenware, white
ornaments in relief. Brown glazed
jugs and teapots in Rockingham
style.
|
| Harley | about 1809 | Teapots, white glazed stoneware;
cover surmounted.
|
| Heath | 1770–1777 | |
| Heath & Bagnall | 1777–1785 | |
| Heath, Warburton
& Co.
| 1786– | |
| S. Hollins | 1774–1816 | Jasper ware, white ground cameo
figures in blue. |
| T. & J. Hollins | 1802–1820 | Similar ware to above. |
| A. & E. Keeling | 1786–1828 | Black basalt and cream ware. |
| Lakin | | Cream ware blue-printed with
English landscape subjects, &c.
|
| Lakin & Poole | 1770–1846 | Dishes and cream ware. Centres
often finely painted with exotic
birds in Worcester style.
|
| J. & T. Lockett | 1786–1829 | White stoneware and salt-glaze. |
| E. J. Mayer | 1770–1813 | Black basalt tea services, &c.,
with animals in relief; silver lustre. |
| E. Mayer & Son | 1813–1830 | |
| Mayer & Newbold | 1823–1837 | Made porcelain as well as earthenware
(marked M. & N.). |
| Mayer & Elliott | | Cream ware, blue-printed. |
| F. Meir | | White glazed earthenware services,
English landscapes printed
in blue, dishes with pierced border. |
| Morr & Smith | | |
| Moseley | 1802–1825 | Black basalt ware; teapots, &c. |
| Myatt | 1802–1840 | Unglazed red ware coffee-pots in
Elers style. Engine-turned with
wavy patterns. Sometimes marked
with an oval enclosing letter W. |
| H. Palmer | 1760–1775 | Fine jasper ware, granitic vases;
figures. |
| Neale & Palmer | 1776–1778 | Jasper ware strongly imitative
of Wedgwood. |
| Neale & Co. | 1778–1788 | Jasper ware and classic figures. |
| Phillips (Longport) | 1760–1830 | Small dishes; salt cellars, cream
ware, Oriental decoration, blue-printed. |
| Pratt | | Vases and jugs, white stoneware,
with blue figures in relief; border
of vine. |
| Ridgway | 1790–1854 | Various elaborate marks used.
W. Ridgway and W. Ridgway &
Son. In 1836 the firm became
W. Ridgway, Morley, Wear &
Co. |
| Riley | | |
| Rogers | 1786–1829 | Blue-printed stoneware. Inferior
imitations of Wedgwood. |
| Salt | 1820–1864 | Figures enamelled in colour. |
| Shorthose | 1783–1802 | Black basalt vases and flower
jars. |
| Shorthose & Heath | 1802– | White glazed earthenware, transfer
printed in red over-glaze. Subjects—children
at play, &c. Cream
ware embossed with wicker pattern
pierced border. (Mark printed in
red, also impressed.) |
| Sneyd | about 1850 | Imitations of Portland vase, &c. |
| Josiah Spode
(the First)
| 1770–1797 | Black basalt ware. Stoneware
jugs with sporting subjects in relief. |
| Steel | 1780–1824 | Jasper and ornamental ware,
white relief on blue, dark blue
figures in relief on pink ground, &c. |
| W. Stevenson | about 1828 | White glazed ware, classic figures
in relief on pale blue ground; impressed
mark W. Stevenson, Hanley. |
| John Turner
(of Lane End)
| 1739–1786 | Fine Jasper ware of excellent
quality. Stoneware jugs, &c., of
warm biscuit colour unglazed.
Black basalt, and under-glaze,
blue-printed ware. |
| Walton | 1806–1839 | Figures-classical Lions, Fishwife,
Gardener, &c. |
| Warburton | 1751–1828 | Rarely marked. Mrs. Warburton,
of Cobridge, in 1751 made great
improvements in cream ware prior to
Wedgwood's queen's ware. In 1828
the firm was J. Warburton & Co. |
| Wilson | 1788–1820 | Stoneware jugs with classic figures
in relief. Ornamental vases in Wedgwood
style. Copper lustre ware. |
| E. Wood | 1784–1790 | Cream ware, basket pattern, &c.
Busts. |
| Wood & Caldwell | 1790–1818 | White glazed earthenware.
Figures, coloured busts, &c.
|
| Enoch Wood & Sons | 1820–1846 | Figures of classic form. |
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