Gainsborough Red Roses Trio - Tea Cup, Saucer & Side Plate Vintage Bone China

Item

Gainsborough Red Rose Roses Trio

Description

Tea Cup, Saucer & Side Plate 

Condition

Very good condition - no chips , cracks or crazing

Quantity

There are 6 of these available when listed.

Please ask about postage if you require more than 1

Background

Gainsborough bone china were a small mid-priced maker who never reached the heady heights of collectability like say, Royal Albert or Aynsley.

They were listed in 1955 as one of the 9 makers amalgamated into the giant Pearsons group under the name of 'The Ridgway Potteries Group'.

So a smaller Longton firm making bone china (and there many of those closely packed together in a couple of streets) which was swallowed up in the 1950's when the going was getting tough and Pearsons were making acquisitions into their giant Ridgways group - meant to take on the other giants like the Wedgwood group and Worcester/Spode.

They were based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire because their listing reads as follows:- "Gainsborough Works of Longton"