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
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