James and Charles Whitehead

Location and period of operation:

Earthenware manufacturers at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

• In 1793 the Whitehead brothers took over the works from their uncles Charles & Ephraim Chatterley

• A Whitehead catalogue of 1789 lists printed, painted and enamelled ware as well as 'dry bodies such as Egyptian, Black, Jasper, etc'  

• The brothers were declared bankrupt in 1810. 

creamware - pierced covered sugar bowls
probably James & Charles Whitehead

Whitehead catalogue of 1789

London Gazette
10 March 1810 

notice of a Commission of Bankruptcy agains
James and Charles Whitehead 

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