Extract from Pearsons Design sketchbook

This page is from a book of design sketches for the pottery firm, Pearsons and Company of Chesterfield in the county of Derbyshire, England. It includes designs for an "Elephant with stand to hold a pot", a "Wild Rose Ash Tray", a "Dive Wall Pocket", a "Fruit Dish", a "Shell Flower and Glass Holder" and several vases.

Pottery has been manufactured at in Chesterfield and district since at least the fifteenth century. The firm that became Pearson's & Co. at Whittington Moor was established in 1810 after William Johnson bought a pottery business in Newbold. The business was bequeathed to his wife Catherine nee Pearson on his death and she left the business to her nephew, James Jervis. Around this time the business became known as Pearson's and Pearson & Co was incorporated under the Companies Act as Pearson & Co (Chesterfield) Ltd in 1922. The firm closed in 1994.