Coalport porcelain

The company often sold its wares as Coalbrookdale porcelain, especially the pieces with flowers modelled in three dimensions, and they may be called Coalport China.

Models that originated at Meissen and Sèvres were copied at Coalbrookdale in the mid-19th century, sometimes with misleading marks,[5] "a practice which ought to have been avoided", William Chaffers observed.

[7] In 1820 Rose received the gold medal of the Society of Arts for his feldspar porcelain and an improved, lead-free glaze, with which the enamel colours fused in firing.

At The Great Exhibition (London 1851) an elaborate Coalport table service with deep borders of mazarin blue was shown; it had been commissioned by Queen Victoria as a gift to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

[13] From 1800 to 1814 Rose's brother Thomas operated a small works on the other side of the canal, initially with William Reynolds (died 1803), an industrialist, and Robert Horton.

Under the management of his son Charles Bruff from 1889,[18] an extensive export trade to the United States and Canada was initiated in the 1890s, and the works were rebuilt on the original site in 1902.

[20] In 1926 production moved to Staffordshire, the traditional centre of the ceramics industry in Britain, and, although the Coalport name was retained as a brand, in 1967[21] the company became part of the Wedgwood group.

The original manufactory buildings now houses the Coalport China Museum, as well as a YHA Youth Hostel,[22] cafe, artists' studios and a handmade arts and crafts shop.