Vintage (1980's) Coalport 'Blue & Yellow Floral Design' Fine Bone China' Dessert Bowls x 2 # 2.

“Used – Very good condition”

Vintage (1980's) Coalport 'Blue & Yellow Floral Design' Fine Bone China' Dessert Bowls x 2 # 2.



Coalport Porcelain


China and earthenware manufactures at the Coalport Works, Shropshire 1795 - 2000


The Coalport factory was founded by John Rose in 1795; he continued to run it successfully until his death in 1841


Coalport, Shropshire, England was a centre of porcelain and pottery production between about 1795 ("inaccurately" claimed as 1750 by the company) and 1926, with the Coalport porcelain brand continuing to be used up to the present. The opening in 1792 of the Coalport Canal, which joins the River Seven at Coalport, had increased the attractiveness of the site, and from 1800 until a merger in 1814 there were two factories operating, one on each side of the canal, making rather similar wares which are now often difficult to tell apart.



Both factories made mostly tablewares that had elaborate overglaze decoration, mostly with floral subjects. A further round of mergers in 1819 brought moulds and skilled staff from Nantgarw Porcelain and Swansea Porcelain to Coalbrook, which continued to thrive through the rest of the century.

John Rose died in 1841; the enterprise was continued under the former name "John Rose & Co." by his nephew W.F. Rose and William Pugh. William Pugh continued the production as sole proprietor from 1862 until his death in 1875, after which the company was put in receivership by his heirs. It was purchased in 1880 by the East Anglian engineer Peter Buff (d.1900), who reinstated it as the Coalport China Company. Under the management of his son Charles Bruff from 1889, an extensive export trade to the United States and Canada was initiated in the 1890s, and the works were rebuilt on the original site in 1902.


During the 1920s it fell again into financial difficulties and was eventually taken over by the Cauldon Potteries, Ltd., of Sheldon, Staffordshire in 1925. In 1926 production moved to Staffordshire, the traditional centre of the ceramics industry in Britain, and, although the Coalport name was retained as a brand, in 1967 the company became part of the Wedgwood group.


The plates are in good condition with no chips, cracks or crazing.

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N.B. postage To UK £3.99, To Europe £10.38, Worldwide (Zone 1: £16.35, Zone 2: £17.40


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