Staffordshire Pottery Figures
Overview
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, British nobility and the well-to-do merchant class indulged their passion for ceramics by purchasing the expensive and refined porcelain made by the German Meissen factory and the English Chelsea, Bow, Wedgwood and Worcester works. Meanwhile, the ceramics workers in Staffordshire offered more humble and naive pottery figures at modest prices to decorate the cottages of the folk on the lower rungs of [...] Click here to continue reading.