Porcelain & Glass

The last working Victorian pottery factory in England.

A style of polychrome enamel with characteristic five color glazes-gold and silver painted on cobalt underglaze bodies. The different styles in Imari ware are named after the region where they are produced or after the families inventing the style.

"Majolica" refers to a type of highly colorful tin-glazed pottery that was made in the Balearic Islands, the largest of which is Majorca. It's the 19th-century American-made Majolica that became the rage in this country for many years.

Opaline glass is a decorative style of glass made in France from 1800 to the 1890s. The glass is opaque or slightly translucent, and can appear either white or brightly colored in shades of green, blue, pink, black, lavender and yellow.

This is a generic term for the products of many potteries in Stoke-onTrent, Hanley, Cobridge, Etruria, Burslem, Fenton, Tunstall, Longport, Shelton, Lane End and some other places, where for centuries potteries and potters have flourished.

Several potteries were established near Sunderland, the earliest about 1775. It is noted for its pink lustre and for the mugs and jugs decorated in black transfer-printing with ships and with verses appropriate for the sailors for whom they were made.