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R G Scrivener & Co |
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Location and period of operation:
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R G
Scrivener & Co |
Hanley |
1870 |
1883 |
China
and earthenware manufacturers at the Norfolk Street
Works, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,
England.
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Subsequently Pointon & Co Ltd
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Norfolk Street Works "These works in Cauldon Place, established by R. G. Scrivener and Thomas Bourne (R. G. Scrivener & Co.) in 1870, were situated about midway between Stoke and Hanley. The productions were good quality, decorative china tea, breakfast, desert and other services and fancy articles, and earthenware toilet and other services of a more than average degree of artistic decoration. They exported considerable to the colonies, and also supplied the home markets. The mark is the initials R.G.S. & Co. impressed. They continued to 1883." Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900 - revised by Geoffrey A. Godden. |
R G Scrivener
& Co
Norfolk Street China Works, near Stoke-on-Trent
The Pottery Gazette,
February 2nd 1880
Examples of Scrivener & Co ware:
 hand painted ornithological subject plates with raised gilding |
 R G S & CO impressed mark |
 example of one of the plates from a set of 18 plates and 5 serving compotiers hand painted flowers with raised
gilding and white enameled jewels on the rim |
 Presented to the Rev John Watson MA by the Teachers of St. John's Hanley May 1882 St. John's is likely to be the Parish Church of St. John
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photos courtesy: Ruby Lane
serving plates decorated with
swags of reddish/pinkish roses,
gold medallions with blue enamel dots in each
with impressed mark RGS & Co
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photos courtesy: Raine Falik
Marks & initials used on ware for identification:
R G S
R G S
& CO
R G Scrivener & Co
R G S
& CO
impressed marks are generally
in a square with inverse
rounded corners
R G Scrivener
& CO
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