Baifield Productions Ltd






 

Location and period of operation:

Baifield Productions Ltd

Stoke

1964

c.1970s

 

Earthenware manufacturer at the Crown Devon Works, Sutherland Street, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, England. 
  • Baifield Productions Ltd was a subsidiary of S. Fielding & Co Ltd - Baifield produced garden pottery, flower bowls, vases, jardinieres, oven-to-table ware and fancy earthenware.

  • In 1963 Douglas Kitchener Bailey bought an interest in Fielding. Bailey had previously been the managing director of Howard Pottery.

  • Reginald Fielding and Douglas Bailey became the joint managing directors of Baifield Productions - the name Baifield being a contraction of their surnames. 

  • Howard Pottery, under Douglas Bailey, had used once fired techniques and Bailey introduced cellulose decorated ware at Baifield, much as the previous Era Art Pottery had done in the 1930s. Baifield Productions used one of Era's trade names: Ranleigh Ware.   

  • Reginald Fielding had retired in 1967 and following the death of Douglas Bailey in 1971 his widow took over the Fielding business which was sold in 1976. By this time the Baifield Productions business had closed.    

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

 


Ranleigh
Ware

trade-name initially used by Era Art Pottery 

Godden notes: "The trade-name 'Ranleigh Ware' was reintroduced early in 1964, on pottery marketed by BAIFIELD PRODUCTIONS LTD., a subsidiary of S. Fielding & Co., Ltd" 

Geoffrey Godden; Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks.

 


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