Palissy was the trade name under which the English firm of A.E. Jones and Sons, of

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, marketed their

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and

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. The name was chosen as a tribute to

Bernard Palissy Bernard Palissy (c. 1510c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decora ...

, the famous French potter of the 16th century, creator of

Palissy ware Palissy ware is a 19th-century term for ceramics produced in the style of the famous French potter Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–90), who referred to his own work in the familiar manner as ("in the rustic style"). It is therefore also known as rust ...

History

They were bought out in 1958 by the

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group, and in turn the Carborundum company that already owned

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china and took over Hammersley china in 1972, and then Royal Worcester in 1974. Later pieces are marked Royal Worcester Group, then Royal Worcester Spode Group, but production was undoubtedly still in

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. From 1982, production of Palissy and Hammersley ranges was merged, until their final demise in 1988.

Pottery

Earlier marksA.E. Jones and Sons, Profile
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shaped outline, which the few published sources seem to think stopped before 1940, but was clearly used as late as 1950, then about 1935 to 1939 some items have a palette outline shape with Palissy Hand painted. Plus some use of the two words Palissy Ware, sometimes in an

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squared format. Postwar usage was also the two words Palissy England, with England written along the horizontal tail of the letter y and pottery with the word Palissy impressed. Plus, perhaps to dupe postwar American export customers, a mark of Palissy Established 1853, around the design of a whiskered head and shoulders presumably trying to allude to

. Many of the same pattern transfers were used, but Palissy ware is somewhat cream and quite distinctive against the whiter body of Hammersley, in the same physical shapes.

References

{{Reflist, 30em 1988 disestablishments Companies based in Stoke-on-Trent Companies established in 1853 Staffordshire pottery Privately held companies of the United Kingdom