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A Brown Betty is a type of teapot, round and with a manganese brown glaze known as Rockingham glaze. [1] [2] The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Britain, in 1695. This clay resulted in a ceramic which seemed to retain heat better and so found use as the material for the teapot as early as ...
Sadler "Brown Betty" teapots. Sadler racing car teapot 1930s. James Sadler and Sons Ltd was a pottery manufacturer founded in 1882 by James Sadler in Burslem , Stoke-on-Trent , United Kingdom .
Davenport Pottery was an English earthenware and porcelain manufacturer based in Longport, Staffordshire. [1] It was in business, owned and run by the Davenport family, between 1794 and 1887, making mostly tablewares in the main types of Staffordshire pottery .
The Brown Betty is an example of this kind of earthenware. Amongst its more standard products were blue and green transfer-printed creamware and pearlware services and other items featuring a variety of scenes: the "Returning Woodman" or "Peasant" (often on octagonal plates) is possibly the most recognisable of these.
The Ridgway family was one of the important dynasties manufacturing Staffordshire pottery, with a large number of family members and business names, over a period from the 1790s to the late 20th century. In their heyday in the mid-19th century there were several different potteries run by different branches of the family.
In 1982 the original Clarice Cliff Collectors Club was formed and promoted her and her work throughout the world. The club founder had appealed in the Staffordshire Evening Sentinel for anyone who worked with Cliff to contact him and was delighted when he found 28 former workers. Still calling themselves the 'Bizarre girls' even in their mid ...