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The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862 and in 1896 his son Percy Shelley became the sole proprietor, after which it remained a Shelley family business until 1966 when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries. Its china and earthenware products were many and varied although the major output was table ware.
While often made in pottery, some manufacturers such as Shelley produced bone china chintzware, particularly after World War II. [1] Chintzware was also copied at the time by German, Czech and Japanese manufacturers. Royal Winton began reproducing a few of their chintz patterns in the mid-to-late 1990s. [1]
Joseph Shelley his father died in June 1896, and Shelley took control of the business. To improve the ware he brought in artists and designers who he felt could (and did) change the company. The best known were Rowland Morris and Frederick Alfred Rhead. [2] Shelley married in 1890 and his first son, Percy Norman, was born in 1893.
The list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad (Chinese: 禁止出境展览文物; pinyin: Jìnzhǐ Chūjìng Zhǎnlǎn Wénwù) comprises a list of antiquities and archaeological artifacts held by various museums and other institutions in the People's Republic of China, which the Chinese government has officially prohibited, since 2003, from being taken abroad for ...
Hong Kong has long been known as a free and open trading hub, but China's imposition on Hong Kong of a sweeping national security law in 2020 drew criticism from the U.S. and led it to end the ...
In the 19th century, J. & G. Meakin was known for the vast quantities of cheap ironstone china it produced for the domestic English market and for export to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. From around 1970, designs included Liberty, Sterling, Trend, Classic and Heirloom. Some of these were influenced from earlier designs.