If you’re familiar with 19th-century ceramics, you probably know about ironstone. It was first made by English potter Miles Mason, who sold Chinese export porcelain and decided to make his own ...

The heyday of melamine dinnerware was in the 1940s and 1950s. Kaye LaMoyne designed the highly successful Melmac lines ...

Japan had lived in relative isolation from the outside world. American gunboat diplomacy, instigated by Commodore Perry in 1853, opened up Japan for trade with the West. The Japanese did not wish to ...

A union is stepping up its calls for Government intervention to safeguard the future of the pottery industry. It first made the call following the collapse of Royal Stafford, in Burslem, last week.

The mass production of Dehua white ware can be traced to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and in the 17th and 18th centuries it ...

To celebrate February, the month of presidents, Shaun Murphy brought the sculpted heads of America’s presidents up from the ...