Riddle & Bryan
Riddle & Lightfoot
James Riddle
 






 

Location and period of operation:

Riddle & Bryan

Longton

c.1835

1840

Riddle & Lightfoot

Longton

1840

1851

James Riddle

Longton

1851

c.1854

 

Earthenware, luster ware and china manufacturers at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  • George Bryan withdrew from the Riddle & Co partnership in 1840 (source: Geoffrey Godden, Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, quoting R. G. Haggar.)

  • The business continued as Riddle & Lightfoot until July 1851 when Arthur Lightfoot retired from the partnership and James Riddle continued on his own account.  

 

 


copper luster jug - Riddle & Bryan, Longton

c.1835-40 

Riddle & Bryan, Longton - "printed mark on copper luster jug... this hitherto unrecorded printed mark occurs on part of the clock face panels on each side of a jug"  (Geoffrey Godden, Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks)

 

 

The london Gazette
18th July 1851 


notice of the dissolution of the partnership between 
James Riddle and Arthur Lightfoot - Riddle to
continue on his own account 

 

 

"Commerce Street - The works, now carried on by Mr. Thomas Walters [the Talbot Works] (late Walters & Hulse), were, he informs me, established by Messrs. Riddle & Lightfoot. The productions are china of ordinary quality for both home and export markets" Llewellyn Jewitt - 'The Ceramic Art of Great Britain' 1878. 

 

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