William Ault

These firstly resulted from the purchase of some of the Linthorpe Art Pottery's moulds for Dresser designs, after this went out of business in 1889–91.

William Ault had retired in 1922, when he was 80, and the business was wound up in the 1930s,[7] ending as part of Pearsons of Chesterfield.

[9] Dresser's contract with Ault, signed in May 1893, paid £400 over three years, and specified that a stamped signature ("Chr.

[12] An Ault Pottery pattern book including over 900 drawn pottery designs by many different hands, and some cryptic notes apparently relating to payments to Dresser, was unveiled by the Dorman Museum in Linthorpe in 2015; they also have a collection of Dresser/Ault pieces.

They had bought the book in 2013/14 from someone who had found it "saved from a skip in the 1960s" when working for Pearsons.