Vintage(1977) 'Coalport' Christmas - “Dangerous Skating” - Fine BoneChina Decorative Plate With Gold Embossed Edge.

“Used– Very good condition”

Vintage(1977) 'Coalport' Christmas - “Dangerous Skating” - Fine BoneChina Decorative Plate With Gold Embossed Edge.


Christmas1977......secondin an annual series reproduced from the

OriginalPratt prints...........Dangerous Skating.


CoalportPorcelain


Chinaand earthenware manufactures at the Coalport Works, Shropshire 1795 -2000


TheCoalport factory was founded by John Rose in 1795; he continued torun it successfully until his death in 1841


Coalport,Shropshire, England was a centre of porcelain and pottery productionbetween about 1795 ("inaccurately" claimed as 1750 by thecompany)and1926, with the Coalportporcelain brandcontinuing to be used up to the present. The opening in 1792 of theCoalportCanal,which joins theRiverSevenatCoalport, had increased the attractiveness of the site, and from 1800until a merger in 1814 there were two factories operating, one oneach side of the canal, making rather similar wares which are nowoften difficult to tell apart.



Bothfactories made mostly tablewares that had elaborateoverglazedecoration,mostly with floral subjects. A further round of mergers in 1819brought moulds and skilled staff from Nantgarw Porcelain and SwanseaPorcelain to Coalbrook, which continued to thrive through the rest ofthe century.

JohnRose died in 1841; the enterprise was continued under the former name"John Rose & Co." by his nephew W.F. Rose and WilliamPugh. William Pugh continued the production as sole proprietor from1862 until his death in 1875, after which the company was put inreceivership by his heirs. It was purchased in 1880bythe East Anglian engineer Peter Buff(d.1900),who reinstated it as the Coalport China Company. Under the managementof his son Charles Bruff from 1889,anextensive export trade to the United States and Canada was initiatedin the 1890s, and the works were rebuilt on the original site in1902.


Duringthe 1920s it fell again into financial difficulties and waseventually taken over by the Cauldon Potteries, Ltd., ofSheldon,Staffordshirein 1925. In1926 production moved to Staffordshire,the traditional centre of the ceramicsindustryin Britain, and, although the Coalport name was retained as a brand,in 1967thecompany became part of the Wedgwood group.



N.B.The plate is in very good condition with no chips, cracks or crazing.

(Please see photos for details)


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N.B. Postage UK £2.99,  to Europe £7.95,  Worldwide (Zone 1: £11.65, Zone 2: £12.40. 


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