Ridgway Potteries

Homemaker tureen and plate in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Ridgway Potteries was a British pottery manufacturer of Stoke-on-Trent that produced mainly high quality earthenware from 1790s through to the mid twentieth century.^[1]

The firm was established by Job Ridgway (1759-1813) and his brother George (c. 1758-1823), who together established a factory at Hanley in 1794. Popular products included Cauldron Ware, much of which was exported to the United States,^[2] and in the later twentieth century Homemaker tableware.

Ridgway Pottery later merged with the Booths & Colclough China Company during the 1940s, and later became a part of Royal Doulton in the 1960s.

References

1. Ridgway ware brittanica.com, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014. Archived 2014-02-22 at WebCite
2. Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. (1977) The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. London: Allen Lane, p. 662. ISBN 0713909412

Further reading

• Godden, Geoffrey A. Ridgway Porcelains. London, 1972. (2nd revised edition Antique Collectors' Club, 1985. ISBN 0907462650)
• Godden, Geoffrey A. The Illustrated Guide to Ridgway Porcelains. Barrie & Jenkins, 1972. ISBN 0257651187

External links

• http://www.thepotteries.org/features/ridgway1956.htm
• http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/854a.htm
• http://en.wikicollecting.org/ridgway-pottery
• Works by Ridgway in the Victoria & Albert Museum.