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- Doulton's Lambeth Pottery
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Doulton's Lambeth Pottery
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primary name: Doulton's Lambeth Pottery
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other name: Doulton & Watts
- Details
- organisation; manufacturer/factory; British
- Other dates
- 1815-1956
- Address
- High Street, Lambeth, London
- Biography
- Doulton was the first factory in England to establish an art pottery studio. In the late 1870's they produced a range of ornamental earthenwares in Persian, Cypriot and other Eastern styles. Bill-head in Heal Collection (Heal,98.2) states "Bought of Doulton & Watts, Manufacturers of Patent Stone Ware...Chemical Apparatus of every description Warrented to resist the Strongest Acids and made to the size of 300 Gallons. Royal Patent Water Filters. Packages cannot be returned. Bottles & Jars Glazed inside and kept Basketted for Spirit Merchants. Ale & Porter Bottles, Covered Jars, &c. &c. Terra Cotta Vases, Statues, Fountains and all kinds of Architectural Work." The bill is dated "London 9 January, 1847." Heal's annotations on mount: "1815 John Watts & John Doulton founded in Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. 1820 Style of firm changed to Doulton & Watts - High St. - [Lambeth]. 1854 Style of firm changed to Doulton & Co."
- Bibliography
- Eyles, D., 'Doulton Lambeth Wares', London 1975
'Lambeth Art Pottery', exhibition catalogue, Richard Dennis, London 1975
Sparkes, J., 'Lambeth Stoneware', JSA May 1874, 557-70 and 'Further Developments at the Lambeth Pottery', March 1880, 344-57.
Vallance, A., 'The Lambeth Pottery', Magazine of Art XXI 1897, 221-4