Creamware master potter Thomas Whieldon with coloured stains under the glaze. It served as an inexpensive substitute for the soft-paste porcelains being developed by contemporary English manufactories, initially in competition with Chinese export porcelains. It was often made in the same fashionable and refined styles as porcelain. The most notable producer of creamware was Josiah Wedgwood, who perfected the ware, beginning during his partnership with Thomas Whieldon. Around 1779, he was able to lighten the cream colour to a bluish white by using cobalt in the lead overglaze. Wedgwood sold this more desirable product under the name "pearl ware". Wedgwood supplied
Don Pottery the vicinity of the Don Pottery began making porcelain shortly afterwards, including the world-famous Rockingham Pottery. Don pottery porcelain which was produced between 1810 and 1830 was of a very high quality and was exported worldwide. Whilst the pottery was initially very successful, financial problems arose in the 1830s and the Greens were forced to sell the pottery in 1839, when it was purchased by Barker and Sons, who owned the nearby Mexborough Pottery. The factory was closed in 1893 as a result of further financial problems. Don Pottery The Don Pottery was a 19th-century manufacturer of porcelain, whose factory