Sprigging (pottery) the Fulham Pottery or the German-born Elers brothers were first is uncertain. They used metal moulds, which tend to leave a thin line impressed into the body around the outline of the sprig. White Chinese Dehua porcelain cups and pots with sprigged prunus (plum/cherry) blossom decoration were copied by several European porcelain factories in the mid-18th century, from Meissen and Sèvres to Bow. Sprigging was used extensively in the Staffordshire potteries on a variety of wares and reached a height with Josiah Wedgwood's Jasperware, and his replica of the Portland Vase in 1790, which fully exploited the possibilities of contrasting
Roger Michell (studio potter) met and subsequently married Napiorkowska, a fellow student. whom he moved with to Yorkshire to establish a pottery in East Knapton. The work produced reflected a shared admiration of 18th century creamware and some ambitious designs were produced influencing the look and feel of nineteen seventies pottery and altering the direction of art and design for the rest of the century. It paved the way for new, young designers who were freed from modernist design constraints of the recent past. A plethora of novel designs began to gain prominence in the high street for example, the liquorice allsorts handbag plus