1870s

Type of Mark:
Impressed
Richard Alcock - Central Pottery

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Potter: Richard Alcock

Biography

Richard Alcock began manufacturing at the Central Pottery in 1870.  He apparently enlarged and improved these works.  He made white (and tea leaf) ironstone exclusively.

 

In 1881, he was listed as an earthenware manufacturer employing some 150 employees.  He lived at Hollies House, Wolstanton.

 

Upon bis death in 1881, the Central Pottery was taken over by Wilkinson and Hulme.

Location: Central Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Cable Shape
Motifs:
Tea Leaf
Type of Mark:
Stamped/Printed
Knowles, Taylor, Knowles - Tacoma - TL - Creamer MARK

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