The China Cupboard  (1780 to 1820)

In the 1790s Tea drinking became very popular. Everyone needed a tea-set.  Potteries flourished and wonderfully hand-decorated  tea services were made in  porcelain, then bone-china. This site is about the tea-wares from 1780 to 1820 and their makers.  It focuses on  "Bute" and "Hamilton Flute" teacups but also has: Guide to coffee cans Examples of teaset shapes.

b Click for Guide to Bute cups

Click for Guide to Hamilton Flutes a

The guides will lead you to the makers  where possible. Go  to other pages or makers directly by clicking on their names. 

  Bourne   Bristol   Caughley   Coalport   Chamberlain   Davenport   Derby  Factory Z    Grainger   Herculaneum  Hicks and Meigh  Lustre Group   Machin  Minton  Mason  Neale  New Hall   Pattern book  Pinxton   Rathbone  Ridgway  Spode      John Rose  Thomas Rose   Turner  Wedgwood   Worcester   W***

Chinese seal marks    Pottery Cups    Site map 

Notes page  Breakfast cups  Yellow shell  

Since cups were usually made in porcelain and bone-china, there is a list of the known makers of these wares around 1800. 

Manufacturers of Porcelain and Bone China 1790 to 1830

I am making this website to share my interest in English tea-wares.  The internet offers an opportunity to build a reference collection of colour pictures which can be easily consulted and continually updated.  This site is updated periodically and will I hope become increasingly useful. So, please e-mail me with suggestions and corrections, and also with colour pictures which can be added to build up the patterns illustrated in the pages for each manufacturer. 

Alan Roberts                  e-mail: alan@chinacupboard.co.uk

latest update December  2006.