Setting for Eight, Dinner for Two by B.G. Thomas

In 1877, Henry Doulton invested in Pinder, Bourne & Co., a pottery on Nile Street, Burslem, Staffordshire, to manufacture tableware and ornamental ware. The international popularity of the art pottery produced at Lambeth led to the number of art potters increasing from six in 1873 to 345 in 1890, including such famous names as Frank Butler, Eliza Simmance, Arthur Barlow and his sisters Hannah and Florence Barlow. Tinworth enjoyed a long career at the Lambeth studio, producing a wide range of figures, vases, jugs, tankards and reliefs, as well as fountains and monumental sculptures. He trained the sculptor George Tinworth who joined Doulton as the first resident sculptor in 1867. Through Henry Doulton, the pottery became associated with the Lambeth School of Art directed by John Sparkes from about 1866. Salt-glazed wares with blue decoration first appeared in 1862. Many glazes and decorative effects were developed including faience, impasto, silicon, carrara, marqueterie, chine, and rouge flambe.įrom about 1860, Doulton began to revive earlier types of stoneware, such as copies of 18th-century vessels. In the mid 1850s John Doulton began experimenting with a more decorative pottery items. John's son Henry (1820 - 1897) joined the company in 1835 and the production of stoneware items was expanded to include laboratory articles, sanitary ware and drainpipes, which were sold worldwide. He began by producing practical and decorative stoneware, such as bottles and sewer pipes from his small pottery He initially had two partners, Martha Jones and John Watts, the former of who left the company in 1820, and the latter in 1854.

The Doulton factory was established in 1815 in Lambeth, South London by John Doulton (1793 - 1873), who had previously been employed at the nearby Fulham Pottery.

Setting for Eight, Dinner for Two by B.G. Thomas