Instead, Dunelm’s own-brand options may be a more affordable choice, with their Urban Cream Stoneware Pasta Bowl coming in at £7 each, but for me personally, they’re a little plain.

Desirable little pickle leaves and butter boats are a rung up the price scale, as are little cream boats and sparrow-beak jugs. After this, one moves on to teapots and larger jugs and mugs. At the top ...

That it happened owes much to the birth of its two most enduring lines - the character figure and the character jug - and the impetus they gave to these great traditions of Staffordshire pottery. The ...