Mellor, Venables & Co






 

Location and period of operation:

Mellor, Venables (& Co)

Burslem

1834

1851

 

Earthenware and China manufacturers at the Hole House Pottery, Nile Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  • The company specialised in printed and 'flow blue' ware for the American Market.

  • The partners were: Charles Mellor of Bleakhill, John Venables of Waterloo Road and Thomas Pinder of Furlong Place.

  • The works were inspected in 1840 by Robert Scriven for his report on child labour in the pottery industry,
    the Mellor & Venables weres were recorded as 'class 2'

    "the rooms, with very few exceptions; are either low, damp, close, small, dark, hot, dirty, ill ventilated, or unwholesome, or have all these disadvantages"

  • The partnership was dissolved in June 1851. John Venables continued for a further 5 years on his own account and with partners.  

 

 

Subsequently: Venables & Baines

 

London Gazette - 8 July 1851 

notice of the dissolution of the partnership in June 1851 

 

 

 

platter in the Whampoa pattern

platter in the Whampoa pattern

 

 

 

Mellor, Venables & Co. flow blue dish in the Eastern Flowers pattern

flow blue dish in the Eastern Flowers pattern

 

 

 

 

dish in the 'Beauties of China' pattern  M V & Co

transfer ware dish in the 'Beauties of China' pattern

 

 

 

transfer ware plate in the 'MEDICI' pattern

 

 

  

transfer ware platter in the 'MEDICI' pattern

the pattern is hand coloured

 

 

 

transfer ware plate in the 'NINGPO' pattern

 

 

 

transfer ware plate in the 'British Tambourine' pattern

the plate is hand coloured

 

 

 

 

transfer ware plate in the 'WINDSOR' pattern


Windsor
REGISTERED Aug 27th 1849
MELLOR VENABLES & Co

'WINDSOR' is the pattern name

this pattern was continued by Venables & Baines

 

 

 

 

  

cup and saucer in the 'OLIVE' pattern

 

 

Initials and marks used on ware for identification:

M V & Co

MELLOR, VENABLES & Co

 

 

M V & Co
M V & Co

'Beauties of China' is the pattern name

 

 


OLIVE
M V & Co

'OLIVE' is the pattern name

 

 


Medici
IRONSTONE

'MEDICI' is the pattern name

the registration diamond shows the pattern was registered on the 5th July 1847


 

'NINGPO' is the pattern name

the impressed mark is filled with glaze and difficult to read

 


Ironstone
Registered by Mellor, Venables & Co
No.58069 Feb 9 1849

this mark was on the
'Beauties of China' dish

 

Mellor, Venables & Co., Royal Patent
Mellor, Venables & Co.
Royal Patent

the impressed mark includes the Royal Arms

sometimes this style of mark is poorly impressed 
and is so full of glaze it is very difficult to decipher 

 

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