Davenport Pottery

Davenport Pottery was an English earthenware and porcelain manufacturer based in Longport, Staffordshire.

[1] It was in business, owned and run by the Davenport family, between 1794 and 1887, making mostly tablewares in the main types of Staffordshire pottery.

In 1794, he acquired his own pottery at Longport and began producing cream-coloured blue and white transfer-printed earthenware.

[2] By September 1806 the quality of his porcelain wares was such that the Prince of Wales, later to become King George IV, ordered services of the finest and most valuable kinds.

[4] The landscape artist James Holland (1800–1872) was employed, from the age of 12, for 7 years as a flower painter at the Longport works.