Makers & Artists

Mar 28, 2020

The Linthorpe Art Pottery occupies a special niche in ceramic history thanks to the extraordinary genius of Christopher Dresser, ‘the...

Sep 9, 2019

The 18th Century saw intense competition among European royalty and nobility to produce their own porcelain. A Copenhagen factory established...

May 10, 2018

The name Brown-Westhead, Moore was almost lost to posterity until collectors rekindled interest in its wares nearly a hundred years...

Mar 28, 2018

Charles Bourne (1776-1836) had one of the smaller factories in Staffordshire, and only produced decorated porcelain for about fourteen years,...

Mar 28, 2018

Gustav Gaudernack (1865-1914) was Norway’s leading Art Nouveau goldsmith. He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna School...

Mar 21, 2018

The Spode Museum Trust calls Spode ‘one of the greatest names of the Industrial Revolution’ and few would challenge the...

Mar 21, 2018

Jabez Aston was one of Coalport’s principal artists in the 19th Century. His forte was the naturalistic painting fruit, usually...

Mar 14, 2018

Coalport is one of the great names in British porcelain yet few know of its derivation. The site chosen by...

Mar 14, 2018

William Billingsley is one of the most celebrated names in British porcelain, a talented and influential painter and gilder, as...

Mar 14, 2018

Henry Daniel and his son Richard made some of the finest porcelains in England in the first half of the...