Creamware Staffordshire, according to one early historian, although this is disputed. The method involved first firing the ware to a biscuit state, and then glazing and re-firing it. Foremost of the pioneers of creamware in the Staffordshire Potteries was Thomas Whieldon. Although he has become popularly associated almost exclusively with tortoiseshell creamware, in fact he produced a wide variety of creamware. He first mentions ‘Cream Colour’ in 1749. The young Josiah Wedgwood was in partnership with Thomas Whieldon from 1754 to 1759 and after Wedgwood had left to set up independently at Ivy House, he immediately directed his efforts to the
Rye Pottery Rye Pottery The Rye Pottery is a pottery in Rye, East Sussex, England. During the 19th and early 20th centuries it produced earthenware in a distinctive style of applied relief decoration, which was marketed as "Sussex Rustic Ware". For most of this period it was under the ownership of members of the Mitchell family. The pottery closed in 1939, but was revived after the end of the Second World War by the brothers Walter and John Cole, who became known for their tinglazed wares. The Rye pottery has its origins in a pottery and brickworks at Cadborough Farm, just to