Shelley China Information

What Is Shelley?

Shelley pot, cup and saucer.Shelley china is undoubtedly the best representative of the Staffordshire England potteries. Perhaps the epitome of all bone china. The Shelley pottery, while it was in operation, produced china and pottery of great beauty and diversity. Their bone china is very thin and surprisingly very strong. The china is thin enough to be translucent, similar to Irish Belleek china. Shelley's bone china achieved these qualities because their bone china formula had the largest percentage of ground bone of any china manufacturer ever. Over 15,000 patterns were applied to Shelley china.

The pottery from this company is easily some of the best art pottery ever created. It began late in the 19th century under Shelley's first trade name, which was Wileman. There are dozens of styles of strikingly beautiful Shelley pottery from their creative art directors and artisans. We can only show a few here.

Shelley products can be identified by their quality, shapes, patterns and trademarks.

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