Description
13.25"wide x 7.5" tall. No cracks, chips, or restorations. Incredible piece with<br>hand painted Gilding and decoration. Guaranteed circa 1830's.<br>Decoration possibly by Joseph Bancroft. In 1808 the brothers John and William<br>Ridgway jointed their father Job's factory at Cauldon Place, Hanley in<br>Staffordshire and in the same year the production of bone china was added to<br>that of earthenwares. The early Ridgway porcelains were in Spode style, with<br>quality, scenic bat-prints and some colourful designs in "London"- shape<br>tea-wares. In 1830 the two brothers separated. William Ridgway concentrated on<br>the production of earthenwares. John continued the Cauldon Place Works and was<br>later appointed Potter of Queen Victoria, making some magnificently decorated<br>porcelains. Around 1833 five hundred people were employed at the pottery, and<br>many talented artists were engaged in production of fine painted pieces, some of<br>which are believed to be the work of George Speight and Daniel Lucas, known for<br>their landscape and figure painting. Thomas Brentnall, George Hancock, and<br>Joseph Bancroft have also been employed, specializing in flower painting. John<br>Ridgway exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and their catalogue shows the<br>great variety and quality of the porcelain produced by the factory at this time.<br>In 1856 John Ridgway & Co. gave way to Ridgway, Bates & Co., to be followed on<br>John's retirement in 1858 by Bates, Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co and than from<br>December 1861 by Brown-Westhead, More & Co., a firm that continued until 1904.
