Porcelain and China Maker History (page 2)
Interesting History and Tidbits about Porcelain and China Makers
from both Past and Present

Johnson Brothers:
A Staffordshire-based company operating since well before the turn of the last century, Johnson Brothers has produced many familiar lines of dinnerware, several of which are becoming very collectible.  Some of their patterns were made in both blue and pink transfer as well in polychrome.  Some of the more familiar and desirable patterns is Friendly Village, Coaching Scenes, Olde English Countryside, Rose Chintz, Millstream, etc.

Lefton:
The Lefton China Company was the creation of Mr. George Zoltan Lefton who migrated to the US from Hungary in 1939.  He embarked on a new career and began shaping a business that sprang from his passion for collecting fine china and porcelains.  His vision was to develop a source from which to obtain fine porcelains by reviving the postwar Japanese ceramic industry, which dated back to antiquity.  As a trailblazer he soon earned the reputation of “The China King”.  Counted as the most desirable and sough-after today are items such as Bluebirds, Miss Priss, Angels, and Figurines.

Lenox:
This is the name of a porcelain maker.  Walter Scott Lenox and Jonathan Cox founded the Ceramic Art Company in Trenton, New Jersey in 1889.  In 1906, Lenox left and started his own company called Lenox.  The company makes porcelain that is similar to Irish Belleek.  The marks used by the firm have changed through the years and collectors prefer the earlier examples. 

Noritake China:
Noritake porcelain was made in Japan after 1904 by Nippon Toki Kaisha.  The best-known Noritake pieces are marked with the M in a wreath for the Morimura Brothers, a New York City distributing company.  This mark was used until the early 1950s.

Nippon China:
Nippon porcelain was made in Japan from 1891 to 1921.  Nippon is the Japanese word for Japan.  A few firms continued to use the word Nippon on ceramics after 1921 as a part of the company name more than as an identification of the country of origin.  Pieces marked Nippon can be found in Dragonware, Moriage (which is a special type of raised decoration used on some Japanese pottery.  Sometimes pieces of clay were shaped by hand and applied to the item; sometimes the clay was squeezed from a tube in the way we apply cake frosting), and Noritake.

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