Antique Hicks & Meigh Serving Plate
Ironstone Stone China
Pattern Design No. 6
Georgian c1820
Antique Ironstone Hicks & Meigh Stone China Number 6 serving plate circa 1820, Shelton The Potteries, England.
Vibrant Bright colors in the Imari style..
HICKS & MEIGH IRONSTONE CHINA SERVING PLATE CIRCA 1820.
BLUE PRINTED ROYAL ARMS AND ‘STONE CHINA NO. 6’ FACTORY MARKS, IRON-RED PAINTER'S MARKS.
Each piece painted in blue, iron-red and gold in the Imari style with Oriental flowering plants, the plates and dishes with trellis work borders.
Gilt not worn.
Approximate size:
19.5cm long
23.5cm long including handles
19cm wide
4cm deep
from http://www.thepotteries.org/
Location and period of operation:
Hicks & Meigh
Shelton
1807- 1822
Earthenware and ironstone manufacturers at the Broad Street Works, Shelton, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
* Broad Street, Hanley was originally known as High Street in the Township of Shelton which bordered Hanley. The factory is, therefore, sometimes referred to as the High Street Works. The change was around 1857 when the townships of Hanley and Shelton were incorporated to constitute the municipal borough of Hanley.
* The partners were Job Meigh II, his brother-in-law Richard Hicks.
* In 1807 Hicks bought a factory in the High Street, Shelton, were he set up as a pottery manufacturer (i in partnership with his brother-in-Law, Job Meigh II.
* Job Meigh II was the son of Job Meigh I (1750-1817), who manufactured pottery on the site of Hanley Old Hall. Job Meigh II, born in 1784, married Elizabeth, daughter of William Mellor of Johnson’s Charles Street Pottery in Hanley, in 1805. Job Meigh II initially worked for his father in the Old Hall Pottery but by 1807 he had left to go into partnership with Richard Hicks, his brother-in-Law.
* Richard Hicks married Lydia Meigh, daughter of Job Meigh I in 1801.
* In 1815 Hicks & Meigh rebuilt the works in a typical rectangular courtyard plan with the kilns in a line along the rear.
* c. 1820 Thomas Johnson (their travelling representative) became a partner and the business was henceforth known as Hicks, Meigh and Johnson.