This famous English porcelain factory was established c. 1795 in Coalport, Shropshire, moving to Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire around 1926. Since1967 the firm has been part of the Wedgwood group.
Canton
We specialise in this colourful oriental-style pattern from the 1930s, now becoming quite hard to find, and much collected. As far as we know there are three versions of the pattern, all on a creamy-coloured body:
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RED & BLACK version The most common variety has hand-painted red, green, yellow and blue flowers on a black transfer. |
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PALE version Also on a black transfer, the second version is painted in paler colours with subtle colour-shading on the red and blue flowers. |
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BLUE version The third version is similar to the first, but the background transfer is blue. |
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The pattern has the Reg No 743463, dating it to 1929+, and items are marked with a crown and the words: COALPORT ENGLAND A.D.1750, "KINGSWARE" in a scroll, and "CANTON".
The design bears similarities to Minton's AMHERST JAPAN pattern, which also features a central temple or pagoda with a large urn of flowers, in mirror image of the CANTON pattern. Another similar pattern is Woods DANBURY, which is handpainted in identical colours on a black transfer.
Below we show some more photos of the variant
colourways described at the top of the page.
To view RED &
BLACK stock items please click
here.
