A large Dudson Jasperware cheese dome, c 1860.  James Dudson was inspired by Josiah Wedgewood's jasperware with its white decoration, and started manufacturing a earthenware version of it at his Stoke on Trent pottery.  A heavy earthenware body with white decoration and a wheat finial.  No marks which suggests an early version of their jasperware.  This is a rare design and is in excellent condition.   

Dimensions:  H22cm (to finial), Diameter 31cm (dish), 23cm (dome), 3 kg weight.

Richard Dudson began his pottery in 1800 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.  Thomas Dudson ran the Hope Street works from 1809 to 1838 and was succeeded by James, 1838-1888. James Thomas (JT) took over in 1888-1889, and then the firm became known as the Dudson Brothers.

It was James Dudson who became interested in Wedgwood’s Jasperware,  and begun producing his own earthenware version of it.  The exceptionally strong, vitreous clay body was suitable for domestic wares, Staffordshire figures, relief moulded stoneware, jasper ware, ebony and mosaic (rouletted). 

Nine generations later, Dudson is still a privately owned family business, the oldest in the UK tableware industry, specialising in ceramic tableware for the ever expanding world of travel and hospitality.