With the script ‘Honest Tea is the best Policy’ inscribed to the waisted square baluster body. The silver lid, collar and shield cartouche hallmarked for Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham 1902. The base with impressed mark ‘Doulton Lambeth England’ plus the model number ‘2830’ and the letter ‘r’ probably for the designer Letitia Rosevear plus other marks.
16.5cm high.

Ref: 25658

Notes: In 1815 John Doulton bought a small Vauxhall, London, pottery for 100 pounds. The pottery produced at that time storage jars and ceramic sewage pipes. Six years later they moved to larger pottery on Lambeth High Street. In 1861 Queen Victoria commissioned Doulton to create a specially made set of water filters for all her castles and palaces. Starting in the 1860s, the company put stress on getting a reputation for design. In the early 1870s, Henry Doulton started a studio in Lambeth, which employed local artists and designers. In 1877 Henry Doulton bought a share in a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. With the Burslem business, they entered the bone china tableware business. 10 years later he became the first potter in history to be awarded the knighthood. Sir Henry Doulton retired in 1897. The company went public at the start of 1899. In 1901 the company received permission to use the word “Royal” in its name. The Lambeth factory closed in 1956. In 1969 Doulton bought Beswick Pottery. 1972 Doulton was taken over by Pearson and Son Ltd.