Leeds ware

Glazed earthenware made at potteries in and near Leeds, Yorkshire, from circa 1760 to 1820.

The term is particularly associated with a thinly potted creamware of fine quality, often decorated with pierced-work, relief decoration, transfer-printing, and polychrome painted decoration.

Leeds ware also includes blue-and-white earthenware, a type of black basaltes ware, redware, agate ware, pearlware, marbled ware and tortoiseshell ware.

From 1820 to 1878 successors to the original factory-owners used the old models and moulds to produce inferior ware with the impressed mark ‘Leeds pottery’.