Thomas Minton Ceramics

History 1793 to 1850.
Thomas minton ceramics. He made minton ware famous a cream coloured and blue printed earthenware majolica bone china and parian porcelain. He formed a partnership minton poulson c 1796 with joseph poulson who made bone china from c 1798 in his new near by china pottery. During the early 1780s thomas minton was an apprentice engraver at the caughley pottery works in shropshire under the proprietorship of thomas turner working on copperplate engravings for. Thomas minton moved to stoke in 1793 and opened his newly built factory in 1796 he went on to become spode s nearest rival.
His factory was outstanding in the victorian period for its art porcelains. The firm began in 1793 when thomas minton 1765 1836 founded his pottery factory in stoke upon trent staffordshire england as thomas minton and sons producing earthenware he formed a partnership minton poulson c 1796 with joseph poulson who made bone china from c 1798 in his new near by china pottery. From 1848 to 1895 they employed a frenchman joseph françois léon. When poulson died in 1808.
The firm began in 1793 when thomas minton 1765 1836 founded his pottery factory in stoke upon trent staffordshire england as thomas minton and sons producing earthenware. Minton s ltd was a major ceramics manufacturing company originated with thomas minton the founder of thomas minton and sons who established his pottery factory making fine bone china in stoke upon trent uk.