Royal Doulton

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Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1815. Originally based in Vauxhall, London, and later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, the centre of English pottery. From the start, the main products the business made were utilitarian wares, mostly stonewares, including storage jars, tankards and the like, and later expanding to drain pipes, lavatories, water filters, electrical porcelain and other ceramics. From 1853 to 1901, its wares were marked Doulton & Co., then from 1901, when a royal warrant was given, Royal Doulton. It also made more decorative wares, initially mostly stoneware, and from the 1860s, the firm made considerable efforts to get a reputation for design, in which it was largely successful, as one of the first British makers of art pottery. Initially this was done at Lambeth, and subsequently at the Burslem factory, which was mainly intended for making bone china tablewares and decorative...

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