Ambassador Ware~Hampton Court Simpson Pottery Bread 6 1/2" Plates 8Pc. Set

Description: SIMPSONS (POTTERS) LTD.1944SOHO Pottery EnglandAmbassador Ware Discontinued 1949. Earthenware manufacturer at the Elder Works, Cobridge. The Soho Pottery Ltd, jointly owned and managed by brothers Samuel and Thomas Simpson, changed its name to Simpsons (Potters) Ltd in May 1944. Samuel Simpson died in the same year and ownership and management of the business was continued by Thomas Simpson and, from 1947, by his son Robert W. Simpson. The Elder Rd Works were extensively modernized following the end of the war and the company were prominent manufacturers and exporters of mid-range earthenware in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1971 the company was purchased by the Pfaltzgraff Company of York, Pennsylvania, the largest stoneware manufacturer in the USA. Under the new owners the factory was again modernized and in addition to traditional Simpson lines, the Pfaltzgraff 'Museum Collection' was produced and marketed. In January 1976, however, Pfaltzgraff announced the ending of tableware production although the factory continued to produce a small volume of stoneware cookware. Simpson's most well known pattern is Belle Fiore, a bold freehand-painted underglaze design in nine colors. It was first advertised in 1940 and was still in production when tableware production ceased in 1976. Rights to the pattern were acquired by Wood & Sons Ltd and a 1977 advertisement in Tableware International illustrates Woods 'Belle Fiori' pattern. Trade names include ‘Solian Ware’ and ‘Ambassador Ware’ also used by the Soho Pottery Ltd, and ‘Chinastyle’ and ‘Marlborough’. Marks include the company name. The Soho Pottery Co was established by Samuel J. Simpson in 1904 at the Soho Pottery Works, Tunstall In August 1910 the company moved to the larger Elder Works in Cobridge. "The Soho Pottery Co., Ltd., of Tunstall, have purchased the manufactory for many years carried on by Henry Alcock & Co., Ltd., at Cobridge, and propose removing there in August. It is the intention of the company to add to their present productions in semi-porcelain many of the well-known styles previously made at these works, including the Popular "Spiral Fluted Ware.” The Pottery Gazette - 1 July 1910 Samuel J. Simpson's sons Samuel E. M. Simpson and Thomas Simpson joined the business and after the death of their father in 1918 they continued the management of the business. Samuel looking after commercial matters and Thomas, production. The works were reconstructed and enlarged. In 1944 the company name was changed to Simpsons (Potters) Ltd but without any change in ownership or management. Joseph Palin Thorley was Director of Design for Soho Pottery from 1918 to 1920 or 1921. Thorley was apprenticed at Wedgwood's and fought in the trenches in France before going to the Soho Pottery. Thorley went from the Soho Pottery to New Chelsea, to Allerton's before immigrating the U.S. in 1927. There he worked for the best potteries like Hall and Taylor Smith & Taylor, before going to Williamsburg to make reproductions of their 18th century museum objects. The Soho Pottery, Ltd., have removed from Tunstall to Cobridge, Staffs., where they now occupy the late Henry Alcock & Co.’s works. The company are represented in London by Mr. H. C. Bennett, and still have their sample rooms at Gamage Building, but they have removed to larger and lighter rooms on the third floor in order that they may make a better display of the goods they are producing. The increase in their business during the last eighteen months has made this necessary. As all the floors in the building are served by an admirable lift, which is in operation at all business hours, the present rooms on the third floor are as conveniently accessible as ground floor rooms. The company show samples of dinner, tea and toilet ware in high-class fine semi-porcelain in new designs for the season and in a variety of pleasing decorations. They make special features of their reproduction of Davenport ware and Solian toilet ware and flower pots. They are strong in dinner ware and toilet ware, and have a number of new shapes and decorations in each. The general goods include tea and breakfast ware, jugs in sets, hot water sets, cheese stands, fruit dishes, sweet dishes, trays, &c. The new season’s goods include many novelties. "Soho Pottery, Ltd., Cobridge, earthenware manufacturers, specialize principally in dinner, dessert, tea, and toilet ware, and although a comparatively young concern, they are now universally regarded as fulfilling an important role in extensively producing the lines referred to. The undertaking is certainly a very progressive one, and in addition to the lines which they have been producing all along, they are now turning out some very superior dinner and toilet wares, which are meeting the very best of success from a selling point of view. One recollects that the firm originally started out at Tunstall, within ten years outgrowing the premises there, and being placed under the necessity of either refusing business or looking out for a more commodious site. Needless to say they preferred the latter, and having become housed in Elder Works, the late Henry Alcock Pottery, at Cobridge, they are now enjoying a turnover quite double that which fell to them at Tunstall. The reason of this is that the "Solian" ware, the distinctive name of the company’s productions — and it would be well if every firm had a definite name for its wares — has made its way into the very best houses, probably by reason of the extreme whiteness of its body and the brightness and up-to-date of its designs. Whatever the cause, retailers are now anxious to display a "Solian" card with goods of the same name in their windows, and, of: course, the firm is always willing to supply them. The London market has taken up the goods energetically, and they are consequently now to be seen in quite a number of the largest stores, whilst the same thing is true in regard to the provincial markets. As regards export, the firm enjoys a particularly good over-seas trade, especially with Canada ; and the South American market, with its characteristic bright border patterns, is largely increasing its purchases of "Solian". The dinner patterns which the writer recently inspected were really splendidly got up, and a superficial glance would have given one the impression that they were china rather than earthenware. The light, cheerful designs, essentially of a china type, show up admirably on the perfectly white body of the ware, and the firm is certainly one of very few who have successfully instituted gold encrustation designs on earthenware. Their blue band and gold lines ware is very good value, and sells extensively ; as a matter of fact, the cobalt treatments generally are being found worthy of more extensive development. As reproductions are the spirit of the age, the firm has not been left behind in this respect, and they have some reproductions of the old Meissen and Davenport patterns which are extremely good, and as near to the originals as possible. Soho Pottery, Ltd., purchased a good many of the original Davenport engravings, and possessing the complete suites of copper plates, they are able to offer for sale to-day some of the original patterns made by Davenport, amongst which may be mentioned the "Willow", "Arabesque", "Pandoro" and "Peel" designs. The "Solian Delft" pattern, a plain blue print in the original Delft blue, has proved a very good seller, and is now handled by many of the principal houses both in this country and abroad. The covered pieces can be had either round with apple knob, known as the "Apple" shape, or with the ordinary oval cover dish, known as the "Silver" shape. One of the dinner patterns to interest the writer particularly was the 3252 pattern, having a ¼" gold band, strong gold edge and line, black key print on the band, and a hair brown spike print border below. This is a decoration quite as finely executed as it would be on china. Another design of the very newest is the "Azalia", done in what is known as goblin blue. The tint is most uncommon, and one can conceive that on a white tablecloth it would look really sweet. That it will prove a good seller I have not the slightest doubt. In toilet ware there are some equally good designs, and they are marked by a brightness which at once makes them favorites. The "Tudor" shape, in solid color ground, suitable for distempered rooms, sells in big quantities. Mr. Simpson, the head of the firm, is a practical potter, who considers that to get along in the potting business to-day one must have not so much a book of old recipes, as a thorough commercial training, any amount of energy, and "a temper framed in cast iron". Although passing through a very busy time, the firm is now busily engaged in bringing out some new shapes and designs for the Christmas, 1913, trade, and dealers are invited to look in at their London rooms, Gamage-buildings, Holborn-circus, towards the end of August, when they are sure to see something attractive, and, what is more, they can rely on getting delivery within a reasonable time." The Pottery Gazette - 1 July 1913 The Soho Pottery manufactured good quality mid-market domestic earthenware. It is best known for its tableware marketed under the trade names 'Solian Ware', 'Ambassador Ware' and 'Chanticleer ware'. It manufactured for the domestic UK market and was also an important exporter to the United States and 'the Colonies'. Whilst not a leader in design or decoration, the company followed contemporary trends and there are some attractive and well decorated art deco-style wares. Around 1930 a series of marks were introduced reflecting specific styles of ware.A number of these marks were continued after the name change in 1944, butgenerally with SOHO Pottery replaced with Simpsons (Potters) Ltd.

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Location: Austin, Texas

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