Potter
Richard Alcock
Location
Central Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Origins
British
Manufacturing Era
1870s
1880s
Treatment(s)
Copper Lustre
Type(s) of Ware
Bath
Dinnerware
Body Style(s)
Motif
Tea Leaf
Description
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.