British Art Potteries, Designers, and Studio Potters

This table lists art pottery makers and designers with dates and marks. Parentheses enclose the birth and death dates of the artist. Other dates given are approximate working dates of the pottery or artist.   Pottery Location Date of Operations Mark Ashby Potters Guild Woodville, Derbyshire 1909-1922 Ault and Tunnicliffe Ault Potteries Ltd. Swadlincote 1923–1937 […]

British Art Potteries

Pottery and Location Location Dates of Operation Mark Aller Vale Pottery Newton Abbot, Devon 1887-1901 Ault, William Swadlincote 1887-1923 Bailey, C.J.C. & Co. Fulham, London 1864-1889 Barons Pottery Rolle Quay, Barnstaple 1899-1939 Barum See Brannam, C.H. Belleview (Bellevue) Pottery See Rye Pottery Bingham, Edward (Hedingham Art Pottery) Castle Hedingham 1864-1901 Bishops Waltham Hampshire 1866-1868 Bramfield […]

Moorcroft

William Moorcroft worked as a designer for James Macintyre and Company of Burslem, England, from 1898 to 1913, then started his own firm. His most familiar wares are decorated with floral and fruit designs on dark blue backgrounds. Huge numbers of these pieces were in hardware stores, drugstores, and gift shops in Canadian towns in […]

Ruskin

The Ruskin Pottery was started near Birmingham at the end of the nineteenth century by art potter Edward Richard Taylor (1838–1912) and his son William Howson Taylor (1876–1935). Edward retired in 1904. Chinese ceramics from the Sung and Ming Dynasties, especially glazes, were an important influence on William Taylor’s work. The pottery was noted for […]

Poole Pottery

Poole Pottery was founded in Poole, England, in 1873 and worked under several names. In 1908 the firm was incorporated as Carter and Company, Ltd. In 1921 a subsidiary company, Carter, Stabler and Adams, was formed to develop art pottery. This firm’s name was changed to Poole Pottery Ltd. in 1962. The company was originally […]