Famous Potters of Stoke-on-Trent
Famous Potters of Stoke-on-Trent
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| The Masons of Lane Delph | |
A family of potters trading under various styles at Lane Delph and Fenton
from c.1800 to c.1854
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Miles
Mason 1752-1822
Miles was born at Dent in Yorkshire. He began his successful career as a glass manufacturer and china dealer, then he started to make pottery at Liverpool and then in Staffordshire, moving to the Minerva Works in Fenton.
In 1813 he handed the business over to his two sons George and Charles James. It was Charles James Mason who invented 'Ironstone'.
In 1815 when the lease with Josiah Spode expired they moved to what is now Victoria Place, there they began to manufacture ironstone.
George Miles Mason
He retired in 1829 and purchased Wetley Abbey in 1832. Here he devoted himself to literature and painting.
The estate originally belonged to William Adams a famous potter of Tunstall (whose name and factory are now owned by Wedgwood.)
Identifying
marks on Mason ware
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Mason Ware
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The Masons of Lane Delph - Reginald Haggar
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