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Bow porcelain factory, (1747–1776) Caughley porcelain; Chelsea porcelain factory, (c. 1745, merged with Derby in 1770) Churchill China; Coalport porcelain; Davenport; Denby Pottery Company; Goss crested china; Liverpool porcelain; Longton Hall porcelain; Lowestoft Porcelain Factory; Mintons Ltd, (1793–1968, merged with Royal Doulton ...
Ceramics manufacturing companies and ceramics/pottery design companies of the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Wilson service, introduced in 1918, was the first American-made presidential bone china service. The Reagan service, introduced in 1982, was modeled on Woodrow Wilson's and selected by Nancy Reagan. Lenox was the first North American bone china to be used in the White House, and the company has since made tableware for six U.S. presidents ...
American Ceramic Products: Los Angeles, Santa Monica: 1939–1967 "La Mirada" "Winfield" tableware, art ware, & figurines [4] American China Company: Los Angeles: 1920s: Tile [25] American Encaustic Tiling Company (Gladding, McBean & Co. after 1933) Vernon, Hermosa Beach: 1919–1933: Tile [2] American Pottery: Los Angeles, San Juan Capistrano ...
Syracuse China, located in Lyncourt, New York (a suburb of Syracuse), was a manufacturer of fine china. Founded in 1871 as Onondaga Pottery Company (O.P. Co.) in the town of Geddes, the company initially produced earthenware; in the late 19th century, O.P.Co., began producing fine china, for which it found a strong market particularly in hotels, restaurants, and railroad dining cars.
The company was originally called Pickard China Studio and it specialized in hand-decorating dessert and tea sets. Pickard assembled a group of men and women china painters, many emigrating from Europe, to create this uniquely American style of hand-painted china. Many of the company's original artists were from the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Union Porcelain Works' Century Vase, as exhibited in the 1876 Centennial Exposition Vase, ca. 1884. Brooklyn Museum. The Union Porcelain Works was both the first and the foremost American manufacturer of porcelain wares from c. 1862 to c. 1922, with its factory located in Greenpoint, now a part of Brooklyn, New York.
The Teco Pottery was founded in Terra Cotta, Illinois, in 1899 by William Day Gates, as a specialty branch of his American Terra Cotta Tile and Ceramic Company, which made architectural terra cotta items like drain tiles and chimney tops. Gates's experiments with glazes and forms led him to found Teco (an acronym for TErra COtta) to create art ...