Ridgway & Morley






 

Location and period of operation:

Ridgway & Morley  

Shelton

1842

1844

 

Earthenware manufacturer at the Broad Street Works, Shelton (Hanley), Stoke-on-Trent, England. 

 

Previously: Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co

Subsequently: Francis Morley (&Co)

 

There was an interchange of patterns between the Ridgway business and between previous and sucessive companies. 

 

 


transferware plate in the Archipelago pattern
Improved Granite China
R & M

with an impressed mark 
of a shield with a lion and unicorn 
from the  Royal Arms

the same style of mark was used by the predecessor Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co

 

 

 


flow blue shallow dish with gilding
mark using the  Royal Arms 
- this version is attributed to Ridgway & Morley

photos courtesy: Stuart Mulholland 

 


Godden - Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks 
attributes this style of the Royal Arms, with a lion on top of the crown,
to Ridgway & Morley

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:


R & M

Nice is the pattern name 
R & M

Moss Rose is the pattern name 

with an impressed mark 
of a shield with a lion and unicorn 
from the  Royal Arms
R & M

Cashmere is the pattern name 
Ridgway & Morley's
Improved Granite China
Manufactured for and
Imported by Tyndale's
Philadelphia

 

       

 


Ridgway and Morley
Shelton
Patent Ironstone China

Real Ironstone China
(impressed) 

 

 

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