During the early decades of the 19th Century, the ceramic industry of Europe was over run by the prolific output of British pottery, porcelain and bone china.

John Rose, established a factory mainly devoted to the manufacture of  porcelain at Coalport, Shropshire, in about 1797, it flourish and in a turn  absorb the concerns of neighbouring Caughley (1799) and later two Welsh factories, Nantgarw  and Swansea (1820). Coalport is now part of the Wedgwood group and is still in operation in Staffordshire.

There is still a little confusion concerning the wares made at Caughley  by Thomas Turner between 1796--99 and those made by John Rose who continued in production until about 1815, when he transferred the entire manufacture to Coalport.  Further difficulties  also come to a head because quite a lot of Turners Caughley wares were decorated by  Robert Chamberlain  himself at Worcester ,  Also in the early 19th Century John Rose was supplying the London decorator Thomas Baxter with Coalport white china. Therefore , attribution is usually best verified by the form rather than the decoration.

Most early Coalport porcelain is unmarked but the pattern numbers can be a useful guide. Progressive numbers 1-1000 where used from about 1805-24, after which fractions were used.  This resulted in 2/1-2/999 being applied to wares made between 1824-38 reaching as high as 8/1-8/1000. The later numbers are usually accompanied with a recorded and datable factory mark. During the middle of the 19th Century Coalport produced some fine quality reproductions of serves porcelain, sometimes complete with mark.

It had long been the ambition of the painter William Billingsley to produce fine porcelain. He left Derby in 1776 to establish a factory at nearby Pinxton, financed by john Coke. The limited production consisted primarily of table wares, very much in the same style as those of Derby.  Sometimes they where decorated with pleasing landscapes by Billingsley himself, in the manner of Zachariah Boreman of Derby. Due to lack of expected profits, Billingsley moved on in 1799 to become an independent decorator, but Pinxton continued in a modest way until 1813. Pinxton used some distinctive handles on their vessels and cups,  which are a useful aid to the collector.

Having found a new backer, Billingsley  started to produce beautiful but costly, soft paste porcelain at Nantgarw, near Cardiff in south Wales, in 1814, however within the same year  he was compelled to transfer  the manufacture to the Swansea pottery of L.W Dillwyn.

There Billingsley and his son in-law, Samuel Walker, were forced to make a more stable porcelain with a so called Duck-egg translucency.  In 1817 they returned  to Nantgarw  to restart their original factory.  Stylistically, the early wares of Billingsley  had much in common with French porcelain of the Empire period, but a large amount of  Nantgarw  porcelain was ruined by the over  ornate decoration added in London by the decorators employed by the china dealers Mortlocks of Oxford street.

Josiah Spode was born in 1733 and at the age of sixteen he was apprentice to Thomas Whieldon.  In 1770 he was experienced enough to take over the pottery of  William Banks, for whom  he had previously worked.  He became a Master Potter, establishing a major ceramic factory, which has flourished to the present day.  The son of Josiah Spode  II, first produced bone china in about 1800,  taking William Copeland  into partnership in 1805.  William Spode  the grandson of the founder died in 1829, and in 1833 William Taylor Copeland and Thomas Garrett  became joint owners until 1847.  From that time the company has  been associated with the Copland family, although now part of the  Carborundum group of companies.