We bring you our top 25 British Ceramicists and Potters.
With the help of our friends on Instagram, we bring you our list of 25 of the best British ceramics brands. Ceramics can really add individuality and art to your home and this list gives you a vast range of products from tableware, serveware, vases and sculptures all made in Britain.
Burleigh Pottery
Burleigh Pottery
Home of handmade English earthenware since 1851. They are the only pottery in the world to still use copper plate transferring.
Denby
Denby Pottery
Combining heritage and high quality since 1809, Denby offer beautiful tableware, cookware and serveware.
Camila Prada
CamiBami
Adorable ceramics all made in the U.K. These have gone straight on to all of our wish-list!
Elizabeth Renton
Elizabeth Renton
Elizabeth is a London based Ceramicist making wheel thrown contemporary tableware.
Emma Bridgewater
Emma Bridgewater
Colourful pottery made in a Victorian factory in the heart of Stoke on Trent.
Emma Lacey
Emma Lacey Everyday
Emma works mainly from her studio in North London but also designs and modes some work to be produced in small factories in Stoke on Trent.
Grey Suit Clay
Grey Suit Clay
A Sheffield based artist and designer working to create unique and completely hand crafted homewares. Using stoneware clays and a combination of stains and glazes, each piece is wheel-thrown.
Isabellla Lepri Ceramics
Isabella Lepri
Born and raised in Milan, Isabella moved to London in the early nineties. She set up her home studio in 2013 and in 2017 she moved into Petr Weigl Studios in Wood Green, North London.
Jono Smart
Jono Smart
Potter offering bottles, bowls, carafes, jugs, cups and vases.
Katharina Klug Ceramics
Klug cermaics
Katharina grew up in her mother’s pottery and trained professionally at college in Austria and Germany for 6 years. She set up business in Cambridge in 2011 and has been given the silver award 2013 by Craft and Design magazine in the ceramic category. She has become a selected member of the Craft Potters Association.
Linda Bloomfield
Linda the Potter
Linda Bloomfield is a London based potter making porcelain tableware and writing books on glazes.
Lisa Katzenstein
Lisa Katzenstein
All if Lisa’s pieces are  hand painted in tin-glazed earthenware, each as unique as the plants they depict.
Karou Parry at Luna & Curious
Luna and curious
Karou Parry’s pinch pots are handmade in London and can be purchased at Luna & Curious.
Mizuyo Yamashita
Misuyoyamashiti
Mizuyo Yamashita is a Japanese ceramicist based in London, inspired by the archeological artefact, everyday product, the form in the nature as well as the materials and the processes in ceramics.
Pip Wilcox Ceramics
Pip Wilcox
Pip Wilcox Ceramics is based in Hastings, England. She is the designer-maker and each piece from this ever-changing collection of decorative and functional ceramics is made by her; by hand and on the potter’s wheel.
Pippi & Me Pots
Pippi and me Pots
Functional and affordable ceramics, beautiful handmade pieces to be used as well as admired. Made in Devon, England.
Planet Ceramics
Planet Ceramics
Planet Ceramics offer two ranges, one made in Tobago and one made in London, this gorgeous bowl is of course from the made in London collection.
Poole Pottery
Poole Pottery
Each piece of Poole Pottery is as unique and individual as the next, with layer upon layer of reactive glaze to create Poole’s vibrant and bold decoration.
Eradu Ceramics
Eradu Ceramics
Eva Radulova is a London based designer-maker working in the field of ceramic design. ERADU Ceramics is Eva Radulova’s trademark.  Eva is completing her MA in Stoke-on-Trent, the heart of the UK Ceramic industry.
Reptile Tiles
Reptile Tiles
Reptile design and produce highly original hand painted tiles and ceramics full of colour, pattern and humour, from their purpose built studio in West Wales, on the border of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. As an office of cat and dog lovers we are totally in love with these!
Royal Stafford
Royal Stafford Carly Dodsley
Royal Stafford is based in the Royal Overhouse Manufactory, one of the oldest pottery factories in Burslem, the Mother Town of the Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent. The Royal Stafford brand was established in 1845 and is recognised around the world as providing high quality, beautiful tableware.
Sophie Alice Wiltshire
Sophie Alice Wiltshire
Sophie is a Ceramicist and Printmaker in London and Wiltshire. This sculpture of Jeanne Baret shows off her amazing talent, but she also makes lots of fabulous items for your home including her gorgeously cute cat planters!
Sue Pryke
Sue Pryke
Sue started her journey into ceramics at a small pottery in Lincolnshire. To bring her range together she has collaborated with small factories and studios in England working with traditional craftsmanship, materials and techniques to make high quality products made by hand.
Yuta Segawa
Yuta Segawa
Yuta Segawa is a Japanese ceramic artist, living and working in London. Take a look at the gorgeous range of products to buy as well as the exhibition and installation work.
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I live in North London (N19). I wish to buy a ceramic shelf for my bathroom (corner above cystern).
Pref white or off-white/vanilla/very pale grey with rounded outer edge right side.
Ideal (and max) size: depth 6″ or 7″ x 20″.
Have tried so many shops/stores, nothing like what i want available. A man in one shop said he knew exactly what i meant, they used to sell them, were lovely ceramic shelves made in Britain but can’t get them any more; also people just buy the foreign made cheap stuff nowadays.
My point exactly!
I do not and will not.
Hopefully one of your ceramics companies can help me or advice where i might buy my shelf please.
Thank you.
Nice to see Poole Pottery Production pieces in there. Such a pity that their hand thrown and unique pieces are in serious danger of being lost, just because they are losing their building.
https://www.change.org/p/mohan-iyengar-keep-poole-pottery-studio-in-poole?source_location=minibar
I’m trying to find a place that I can make ceramic if you could point me in the right direction I’ll be great
a person in one shop said he knew exactly what I meant, they used to promote them, had been adorable ceramic shelves made in Britain but can’t get them anymore
Check out Emma Bailey Ceramics, Stoke-on-Trent, believed to be the next Clarice Cliff.https://www.facebook.com/emmabaileyceramics/?ref=bookmarks
Hello dear friend
We have a company by the name GSB from Iran by the management MR Mahdi Mahmoudi.
We have a factory about traditional ceramic handily work.
We are producer for any designing on the ceramic and tiles (everything by every color that you want).
Also its 17 years we have professional working on restoration of monuments and repair old buildings and places.
We can have exchange about your projects we can Product traditional tail and ceramics in Iran and send to every country and we can to give and work all your traditional works as such as brick for building facade and tails works.
If you want , we will send you our documents / proofs and photos of our work and projects.
Best regard
GSB CO
Hi im looking for information and value of a round earthenware mid size pot. With Pottery by Lillian Bolton or Bolion on the bottom with a code also on bottom of E40. I believe it uk, cheers Dave
Hi im looking for information and value of a green and yellow round earthenware mid size pot. With Pottery by Lillian Bolton or Bolion on the bottom with a code also on bottom of E40. I believe it uk, cheers Dave
I wonder if anyone could recommend a pottery that could make salt inhalers/pipes in the UK please I currently have them made by Wade Ceramics and am surprised to not see them in the top 25.
I’m just about to pay for a new design sample.
Hope someone can help. Thanks Tony
Hi
I saw your comment requiring a salt inhaler.
We make a form of smoking pipe, so we might be of interest. We are based in Stoke on Trent.
Beautiful. Do you have anything br Seth Cardeau? Famous potter in London area. Thanks Bill. USA
I was a pottery figure maker from 1985-2000 at John Beswicks. Is anyone still making ceramic wildlife figures, horses, birds, dogs, cattle etc ?
I’d love to get back into working in this industry but can’t seem to find anywhere that produces it.
Hello
I saw your comment on figure modelling. We are re opening part of an old Stoke factory.
Please contact me for a chat.
I’m looking for decorative ceramic light switch covers, 3.5 inches, (95mm) square, does anyone know of a maker in the UK? Thanks.
UK ceramics manufacture is now all but dead in the UK.
This is largely due to the intentional ineptitude of our so called government whose agenda is always greater centralisation. Brexit is antithetical wrt centralisation hence the difficulty that the ceramics industry now faces with zero tarrif proposals.
Most are beguiled into believing that democracy is seperate to socialism when the facts that are and have been continually bourne out demonstrate the continual erosion of our freedom as centralisation is further consolidated.
I really have to disagree with your comment about UK pottery manufacture being virtually dead. Stoke on Trent pottery are alive and well and are still viewed as the best in the world. For sure, the industry has changed. Many of the big names of old no longer exist, Royal Dolton and Wedgwood have much to answer for and are now just a shadow of their former self. But the industry still employs many thousands in both direct production of ceramics of all sorts and the support industry’s that service them. Steelite, Churchill China, Portmierion/Spode, Emma Bridgwater, Duchess China, Burleigh, the list goes on and on. It annoys me intensely when asking some retailers, do you have any UK pottery?, to be answered with, sorry but non is made in this country any more. Some are genuinely surprised when I correct them. Please open your eyes and your mind. Our UK pottery are alive and well and vibrant beyond measure.
I stumbled on this by accident when scrolling through the Internet re pottery and I was shocked to see the comment saying the ceramic industry is all but dead in the UK. Thank goodness for your reply putting this person right about the our industry still creating and thriving in Stoke On Trent. As you say not as it was before but still strong with many smaller studio potters still producing as well as the bigger potteries. The Great British Pottery Throw Down is filmed here and there’s are a host of potteries like ourselves open to the public. Thank you for spreading the word Stoke On Trent us the ceramics capital of the world. It is still leading the way. Anita from Anita Harris Art Pottery
Hello
Does anyone know a UK company that still manufactures miniature houses ?
I have inherited a few from an Aunt and would like to see if I could build a Collection?
Thanks in advance
Ian
I am looking for a small China manufacturing business in Stoke on Trent to produce quality figures busts etc in small batches . If you are possibly interested or know of someone who may be please reply in confidence ,
Try Duchess China. Might be able to help.
Hi All,
I am looking for a China manufacturing business in UK that can mass produce Eternal beau salt and pepper shakers for me at a reasonable price- around 200 pieces.
Can anyone help?
contact me at gnmarcie@yahoo.com.
thank you.
Agree with many of these, but there are more that I know of which should be in the top 25. I’m manager of a ceramics cooperative shop in Bristol, which has been running for 24 years (I, myself, am a glassblower). Many of the members we have, and Guest Potters I’ve organised are worthy of this list. Hopefully I will make the blown glass list if there is one. Haha.