Wittmann & Roth of London were importers of Continental porcelain and glass ware. 

NOTE: They are included in this database of North Staffordshire potteries because of instances where their identification mark of "W & R L" has been wrongly attributed to a short lived, Longton based, pottery company - Wayte & Ridge. 

• In 1852, Phillip Adolphus Wittmann established a wholesale and retail company based at 42 Great Marlborough Street in London. He was later joined by Sidney Adolphus Wittmann, Herbert Frederick Wittmann, Richard Charles Wittmann, and Augustus Daniel Roth, and the name of the company was changed to Wittmann and Roth. 

• In August 1879 Roth left the partnership which was continued by the Wittmann's - the name  Wittmann & Roth was retained. 

• At some time Herbert F Wittmann left the business.

• In December 1895 the partnership between Richard C and Sidney A Wittmann (trading as Wittmann & Roth) was dissolved. Richard Charles Wittmann continued on his own account as Wittmann & Co. 

notice that Augustus Daniel Roth left the partnership
which was continued by the Wittmann family
the name Wittmann & Roth was continued

"These initials, which often occur in a diamond-shaped outline on earthenware figures, have previously been attributed to the above short-lived firm (Wayte & Ridge). Definite evidence has just come to hand proving that these initials were used on wares (usually Continental) sold by Messrs. Wittmann & Roth, Importers, of London, c.1870-96"

Geoffrey A. Godden Encyclopedia of British Pottery & Porcelain Marks. 1964, 1991

Note: the following entry in Mankowitz & Haggar is incorrect and this is the mark of the importers Wittmann & Roth.

"Wayte & Ridge, Longton. China, Parian, earthenware and lusterware manufactured by this firm at the Waterloo Place Works, Heathcote Road, Longton, in 1864. Figures with their impressed mark have been recorded"

Mankowitz & Haggar Concise Encyclopedia of English Pottery & Porcelain

W & R
L 

both figures carry this stamp on 
the side of the bases 

the registration diamond on the base of both of these figures shows that the design was registered on the 8th December 1876  

Wittmann & Roth registered 
these two designs on this date

Wittmann & Roth used the photographic partnership of Fradelle & Marshall to take the photographs of the caricature figures of Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone for registration with the National Archives. 

Albert Eugene Fradelle & William Shury Marshall was a photographic and miniature-painting partnership who had two studios at 230 and 246 Regent Street, Westminster, London from c.1873 to 1877. 

impressed mark with number 110  

W&R
L

applied mark within a diamond 
with number 110  

one figure has 110 impressed into the base and the other 111; clearly indicating that they are a pair

 impressed mark