See more ideas about creamware, pottery, glazes for pottery. In 2011 it was acquired by Denby Pottery, and production moved to Middleport pottery, north of Stoke-on-Trent. Explore The Brown House: Antiques, Art's board 'English Creamware' on Pinterest. Production was moved to Stoke-on-Trent, and in 1992 after acquisition by John Croft it was renamed Hartley Greens & Co. Leeds City Council restarted the brand in 1983, making reproduction pieces, but soon had to sell the business. However, in 1888 production was restarted by James Wraith Senior, who used the old designs and marked his products Leeds Pottery. In the early 19th century, however, the company went into a prolonged decline and from 1821 was sold repeatedly, becoming in turn Wainwright & Co., Stephen & James Chappell, Warburton & Britton, and finally Richard Britton & Sons, until it finally closed in 1881. The company's flint mill at Thorpe Arch was in 1814 replaced by a converted windmill on their Leeds premises. Leeds Pottery, also known as Hartley Greens & Co., is a pottery manufacturer founded around 1756 in Hunslet, just south of Leeds, England.It is best known for its creamware, which is often called Leedsware it was the 'most important rival' in this highly popular ware of Wedgwood, who had invented the improved version used from the 1760s on. Circa 1783 a businessman named William Hartley joined the firm, and the firm was renamed Hartley Greens & Co. It was created in Hunslet by John Green and Joshua Green, unrelated, around 1756, joined by Richard Humble in 1775 to become Humble, Green, and Co. Leeds Pottery has had a long and complex business history. The 18th-century marks are often copied in later "reproductions" or fakes. 'Between 17, Wedgwood made a great many changes not only in the body and glaze of the creamware but also in the methods of its manufacture.The most important change, however.was the incorporation of Cornish china-clay and china-stone from Cornwall into both body and glaze. The earlier wares were unmarked, and attribution of pieces to Leeds is sometimes uncertain (with Liverpool and Swansea being the most likely alternatives). Marks Īn impressed mark of "Leeds Pottery" (or "Leeds * Pottery") was introduced around 1775, to which "Hartley Greens & Co" was added from 1800. Some figures, rather in the style of Staffordshire figures by Ralph Wood and others, were made, sold plain or enamelled. Many were "engine-turned", with geometric decoration cut on a wheel. Some black "basalt" stonewares were produced, mostly teawares and after 1790. Other decorative techniques used include "engine-turning", where the body is covered with coloured slip, which is then selectively removed to create a pattern, and (in the early 19th century) " resist lustre" where parts of the piece are covered before a lustreware glaze is applied. 1775, "in a faintly Japanese style".Īlthough all the standard types of colour decoration were used at times ( underglaze painting, overglaze enamels and transfer printing), a high proportion of the earlier wares were not decorated.