Willow Potteries Ltd






 

Location and period of operation:

Willow Potteries Ltd

Stoke

C.1925

c.1930

 

China manufacturers at the Arcadian Works, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
  • The Hewitt Brothers business was acquired by Harold Taylor Robinson about 1925 who founded a new company Willow Potteries Ltd operating as a unit of Cauldon Potteries Ltd.

  • Hewitt Brothers operated at the Willow Pottery and used the trade name "Willow Art". The new company continued to use the name "Willow", the trade mark and moulds. 

  • Willow Potteries was run in association with Robinson's other crested china businesses: Arkinstall and Goss. Willow designs were produced at the Arcadian Works of Arkinstall, and by 1930 the Willow name was dropped.  

Previously: Hewitt Brothers 

 

 


 



Stratford-on-Avon

Crested souvenir ware 


Willow China
Stoke-on-Trent
Made in England

 

 


 

 

 


Water Jug with pictures of a fighting cockerel 

‘He who fights and runs away, Lives to fight another day.’


Willow 
Stoke-on-Trent
Made in England

 



 


child's nursery rhyme plate

Willow Potteries mark
with hand painted decorator's mark
and impressed production marks 

 

 

photos courtesy: Samantha Wells 

 


 

Marks used on ware for identification:

 

 


Willow China
Stoke-on-Trent
Made in England


Willow 
Stoke-on-Trent
Made in England

marks with "Willow" and Stoke on Trent" 
were used by Willow Potteries Ltd

c.1925 - c.1930




 


Willow Art
China
Longton 

NOTE: marks with "Willow Art" and the town name "Longton" were used by the predecessor companies: Hewitt & Leadbeater and Hewitt Brothers

c.1907 - c.1925 

 


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