GORGEOUS ANTIQUE 200+ yr old Teapot | Rare Find | W Adams & Co | William Adams Potteries | Romney Pattern deals

Antique Teapot. Made by William Adams & Co Potteries sometime between 1745 and 1805 in Greengate, Tunstall. This teapot is over 200 years old and very rare, I've searched the internet for this pattern high and low and was not able to find any other ones for sale. The pattern is called Romney.

The teapot is not perfect by any means, it doesn't have chips, the is slight discolouration and manufacturers imperfections. Please review all pictures carefully and if you would like more pictures, I can send them to you.

The teapot is a reddish/pink colour and would be a great addition to any collection.

The Adams family had potteries in Staffordshire as early as 1650. At that date two brothers, William and Thomas has separate ventures in Burslem.
Such family activity continued for many years. William Adams and Company, with large potteries in Tunstall was managed by members who were the 11th and 12th generations in direct descent from the original 17th century Adams of Burslem.
Whilst there is no longer an Adams pottery, some of their designs are still produced with their backstamp under the Wedgwood Group name. Adams joined the Wedgwood Group in 1966.
ttributing examples of china marked Adams to a particular man can be complicated and confusing because so many of them bore the same given name, William.
This is particularly true with collectible Adams china. In the latter part of the deals 18th-century and continuing into the 19th, there were three William Adams.

All were cousins and operated their own large potteries independent of the others. Further, with one exception, they were succeeded by sons of the same given name who, in the main, continued making the same kinds of wares. They were:

1) William Adams 1745-1805, of Greengate, Tunstall.

2) William Adams 1748-1831, of Brickhouse, Burslem and later Cobridge Hall, Cobridge.

3) William Adams 1772-1829, of Stoke-on-Trent.

Important also was:

4) William Adams 1798-1865, of Greenfield.

The three cousins made the standard kinds of Staffordshire pottery from Queensware to ordinary earthenware, transfer decorated in blue and other colours. William Adams (1) of Greengate and William Adams (4) are a special interest to collectors. The former made jasperware that equalled that of Wedgwood. William Adams (4) produced 30 different designs of American scenic and history china.

Source: www.thepotteries.org