Minton

Thomas Minton, after working for other potters, started his own firm in Stoke-on-Trent in 1793. The family business made a wide variety of tablewares and decorative pieces. By 1846 it was making Parian ware, and later it made majolica, tiles, bone china, and art pottery. From 1873 to about 1912, the name on the mark […]

Batchelder Tile Company

Ernest Allen Batchelder started Batchelder Tile Company, an Arts and Crafts-style workshop in Pasadena, California, in 1909. The first tiles he made were for his own home. In 1912 the company was renamed Batchelder and Brown, and in 1920 the renamed Batchelder-Wilson Company moved to Los Angeles. Batchelder made wall and floor tiles, fountains, door […]