John Steventon & Sons Royal Venton Ware Flow Blue Willow Platter & Serving Bowl

Description

Available are the following two items:
1) John Steventon & Sons Royal Venton Ware Flow Blue Willow (Smooth) Small 11"  Platter.
11-1/4" Length x 9" Width x 1-1/4" Height. Excellent condition for it's age. No chips or cracks; light shelf wear; crazing throughout. Printed marks used from 1930 to 1936.
2) John Steventon & Sons Ltd. Royal Venton Ware Flow Blue Willow (Smooth) 8-1/2" Serving Bowl
. 8-1/2" Width x 2-3/4" Height.  Excellent condition for it's age. Moderate shelf wear, light crazing. Printed Marks used from 1930 to 1936.
Royal Venton Ware was the company's trade-name.
John Steventon & Sons was an earthenware manufacturer at the Royal Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England The original partners were William J. Brown, John Steventon and W. Lees - trading as Brown & Steventon Ltd. In 1923 William Brown retired from the business - John Steventon countinued with his two sons Horace and Reginald as Steventon & Sons. Originally continuing the manufacture of transferware and general earthenware for dinner, tea and toilet ware.
The trade name 'Royal Venton Ware' was introduced around around 1930. In 1936 Steventon aquired the disused Cledford Works of Electro Bleach and By-Products at Middlewich, Cheshire. From around 1936 the business stopped manufacture of tableware and concentrated on production of sanitary ware and tiles.
In 1963 the company employed around 500 people at the Cledford Works (Times Newspaper - 4 June 1963). In the late 1960s Steventon’s investment in a Canadian plant left them overstretched and the company was acquired by Ideal Standard who continued to manufacture sanitary ware at the Middlewich plant.