Pottery & porcelain
Etruria Pottery marks
On porcelain from City of Trenton, Etruria Pottery marks carry “MADE BY COOK POTTERY CO JULY PATENTED 1899 TRENTON N.J.”.
- Active years
- 1863–1932
- Country
- United Kingdom
- City / region
- City of Trenton, England
- Products
- Wares Art ceramic Cream colored ware Hotel china Parian Tableware Toilet sets White granite White granite and cream colored wares for tables, toilet and druggists’ use, complete line of decorated china and parian wares and statuary (Mains and Fitzgerald 1877); Largely china and white granite ware, decorated goods, including a full line of dinner, tea, toilet, and hotel ware, opaque china goods, the “Century” dinner and tea ware and “Lochiel” toilet ware in opaque china, “Belleek” egg-shell china (Quarter Century’s Progress 1887:267), Wares Art ceramic Ironstone Queensware Rockingham Tableware Toilet sets White granite Ironstone china and Queensware (1865-66 advertisement) White granite and cream colored wares, Wares Electrical Hotel china Sanitary Tableware Toilet sets Toilet and table earthenware (Industrial Directory 1906) Pottery ware (Industrial Directory 1909) Dinner ware and electrical porcelain (Industrial Directory 1912, 1918) Novel earthenware (Industrial Directory 1927) Electrical porcelain (Industrial Directory 1927) Electric porcelain refractory tubes for resistances (Industrial Directory 1931) General and hotel wares (Podmore 1932), china, porcelain, Wares Electrical Garden Other Sanitary Electrical porcelain, bathroom fixtures, refractories (Industrial Directory 1934) Electrical porcelain, bathroom fixtures, china lamps (Industrial Directory 1938) Electrical porcelain, clip-on bathroom fixtures & china lamp bases (Industrial Directory 1940-41), Wares Electrical Tableware Pottery ware (Industrial Directory 1909) Dinner ware and electrical porcelain (Industrial Directory 1912, 1918) Electrical porcelain (Industrial Directory 1927) Electric porcelain refractory tubes for resistance (Industrial Directory 1931), Wares Porcelain Tableware Toilet sets White granite Opaque porcelain, white granite, and decorated ware (Woodward and Hageman 1883:693)
- Marks
- 24
Dated marks & timeline
24 marks
About Etruria Pottery
In 1903 the plant was sold to the Cook Pottery Co. and became known as Cook’s Prospect Hill Pottery. In 1932 the Cook Ceramic Co., a recent incorporation of the Cook Pottery Co. and the Ceramic Allied Products, Inc. purchased the New Brunswick Manufacturing Division of the Circle F Manufacturing Co. and moved to the Prospect Hill site and manufactured Circle F’s porcelain requirements. — Abramson, D.V. and T. Karschner. 1978.
An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, Trenton, New Jersey. On file, New Jersey Historic Preservation Office (NJDEP), Trenton, New Jersey. The shell of Hill Refrigeration Co. Plant #2 is a remnant of this pottery. “The Dale and Davis Pottery was established in 1880, on Prospect Street, near the Bound Brook Railroad. Buildings were erected, and the pottery went into operation during that year.
Opaque porcelain, white granite, and decorated ware are produced here. The pottery has six kilns, and employs one hundred and fifty hands.” — Woodward, E.M. and J.F. Hageman. 1883. History of Burlington and Mercer Counties. Everts and Peck, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Also known as: Cook Pottery Company; Cook Company; C.H. Cook Pottery Company; Cook China Company; American Sanitary Pottery Company · Etruria Pottery Company; Etruria Pottery; Bloor, Ott & Booth; Bloor, Ott & Burroughs; Bloor, Ott & Brewer · Ott & Brewer's Etruria Pottery Works; Etruria Pottery Company · Prospect Hill Pottery · Cook Ceramic Company; Cook Ceramic Manufacturing Company · Cook Pottery Company; Cook's Prospect Hill Pottery · Dale & Davis; Prospect Hill Company