Hope & Carter






 

Location and period of operation:

Hope & Carter

Burslem

1862

1880

 

Earthenware manufacturer at the Fountain Place Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

  • The partners were John Hope and John Carter. 

  • John Hope had previously been in partnership with Thomas Pinder and Joseph Harvey Bourne as Pinder, Bourne & Hope. This partnership was dissolved in January 1862. Thomas Pinder, Joseph Harvey Bourne continued at the Nile Street Works as Pinder, Bourne & Co and John Hope was joined by a John Carter and they continued as Hope and Carter at the Fountain Place Works. 

  • The Hope & Carter business closed in 1880.  

 

Previously:  Pinder, Bourne & Hope

 

 


Hope & Carter
Fountain Place Works, Burslem, Staffordshire 

Pottery Gazette & Glass Trades Journal - 1st October 1879  

 

 

 

Examples of ware produced by Hope & Carter:  

A 1879 advert states: 

"Manufacturers of every description of Iron-Stone Earthenware (plain and decorated), and Ivory Dinner, Desert, Tea and Toilet Ware, &c. &c., and Fancy Articles, Vases, Jugs, Trinkets, &c., in Jet, White, and ivory, and Coloured Bodies."

"Suitable for the following markets: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Cape Colonies, South America, France, Germany, Russia, United States, West Indies, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and The United Kingdom."

In 1882 G. L. Ashworth & Bros. purchased some of the Hope & Carter designs when they went out of business. (Pottery Gazette, August 1908)  

 

 

   

Hope & Carter produced green majolica ware featuring a range of leaves 

 

 



white ironstone covered serving dish 
H & C

the registration diamond shows that the design was registered on the 
29th July 1871 as an earthenware dinner service

photos courtesy: Katie Rutland 


 


trinket dish in a mono-colour Balmoral transferware pattern
in this printed mark the initials H & C are missing but an impressed Hope & Carter is included

 

 

 


hand coloured transferware plate in the Lord Byron pattern
in this mark the initials H & C are missing but the registration diamond shows that the pattern/design was registered by Hope & Carter in September 1876 

 

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

H & C

HOPE & CARTER

 


Hope & Carter
Burslem

impressed mark 

 

white ironstone

White ironstone ware was generally produced for the American market. Most marks carried a printed Royal Arms with the Hope & Carter name in full.

Sometime the mark was an impressed name or initials H & C and/or a registration diamond  

 


Stone China
Hope & Carter
Burslem 

printed mark incorporating the Royal Arms
and an impressed mark Hope & Carter
with a registration diamond  

 


Stone China
Hope & Carter
Burslem 
Imperial
Ironstone China
Hope & Carter
and an impressed mark Hope & Carter, Ironstone
Imperial
Ironstone China
Hope & Carter

 

 

transferware 

Invariably the mark on transferware was two concentric circles surrounded by laurel leaves surmounted by a crown usually with the initial and the pattern name.

Sometimes a registration diamond is included. Occasionally the initials H & C are missing. 

 


H & C 
H & C
H & C

the registration diamond shows that the pattern/design was registered by Hope & Carter on the 5th June 1872 
in this mark the initials H & C are missing but the registration diamond shows that the pattern/design was registered by Hope & Carter in September 1876 

marks on transferware including the pattern name

 

 

Fountain Place Works

 

Questions, comments, contributions? email: Steve Birks