Some of the most recognisable classic china is blue and white... I am lucky to have a Cornishware blue and white striped egg cup and today it is featured in my #the100dayproject as a paper cut out. It sits nicely with yesterday's Willow pattern egg cup and with a stylised blue bird egg cup of unknown origin. Here is the story of the blue and white striped china which today has had a contemporary makeover.... I still like the 1920/30's design! T.G. Green was founded by Thomas Goodwin Green back in 1864. He had returned from Australia having made his fortune and discovered the pottery in Derbyshire while on his honeymoon in Scarborough with wife Mary. One of the company’s most popular lines was always Cornishware, which was first produced in 1924.The stripes were created using a lathe-turning technique that scraped blue slip away from its beautiful ceramics to reveal white bands of clay beneath. Those distinctive stripes reminded a factory employee of the blue skies and ...
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