Empire Shelton Ivory 1149 Set of Serving Plate & Sauce/Gravy Boat
From about 1896, the Empire Works, Stoke Rd, Stoke-on-Trent, produced bone china and earthenware. Lazarus & Rosenfeld Ltd, a European ceramics corporation and founders of the Victoria Porcelain Factory in Altrouhlau, Bohemia, acquired the business after WWII (now in the Czech Republic). H. Kaufmann Ltd, a Suffolk-based lawnmower manufacturer, bought the pottery in 1951, and the Qualcast Group bought it in 1958 as part of its acquisition of the Kaufmann Group. The Qualcast Group formed Empire Po