April 12, 2024
Vintage Thirty-one Piece MYOTT MEDICI Sky Blue Staffordshire Excellent
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Lovely 31 piece collection of Myott Brothers Limited Staffordshire Medici china, marked and numbered 4745. 5 dinner plates 9.75". 7 salad plates 7.75". 8 soup bowls 7.75". 3 bread & butter 6.25", 8 saucers 5.75". Overall very good condition. A few dishes are faded. Many seem unused. Handpainted bright colors. The BeginningsThe firm of Myott, Son & Co. Limited, a typical family run business based in the Staffordshire Potteries, England, operated in one form or another for 93 years. Established in 1898, the factory traded to 1902 at the Alexander Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolfe Street (sometimes referred to as the Wolfe Street Pottery). The Alexander Pottery was founded in the early part of the nineteenth century and was taken over by George Thomas Mountford in 1888 producing earthenware goods. Myott’s produced earthenware from three ovens, the company having been set-up with family funding by one Ashley Myott, at the incredibly young age of nineteen, after the death of his boss Mountford. Thus making him the youngest independent potter of the period.Ashley Myott, who’s family originated in Switzerland, was soon partnered in business by his brother Sydney Myott (up until then holding only part-time status within the company) as demand for Myott ware rapidly increased. The brothers then moved to a purpose
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