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
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