British Arts and Crafts movement. Art Pottery, as it was called in the 19th Century, was itself a reaction against the industrialisation of the British ceramics industry, which had almost completely succumbed to mechanisation and mass production by the mid 1850s.
The Crown Devon factory produced hundred of different patterns painted by a battery of female decorators.
The freestyle nature of flatbrush designs meant that designer Enoch Boulton could test a variety of styles in the market and gear production towards the most popular of them.
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