The Stanley 'Jacobean Ware' was produced by Colclough & Co from around 1903-1928. It was typically a terracotta body vase which owed much to the Arts & Crafts look of Moorcroft Pottery - see Moorcroft Vases page.
The Jacobean pattern vases were often said to be 'poor man's Moorcroft Vases'.
Today they are quite rare and fetch reasonable prices. Staffordshire collectors would feel obliged to have some Stanley in their collection.
Colclough also used the 'Stanley' backstamp and sometimes 'Royal Stanley' mark for bone china production too. These vintage bone china items are of high quality, albeit mass produced, and often bone china cups and saucers of a similar design and shape to Colclough's own brand of bone china tableware can be found. Any Stanley items marked with the Ridgway pottery mark would be later than 1955.
Royal Stanley China Online Auction Value - Price guide
Use the above graphic resource as your starting point for valuing Royal Stanley china collections. It is quick, clever and conveninent.
The Stanley Jacobean ware is richly decorated and highly colourful with a high gloss and typically with rich Cobalt Blue Grounds creating a pretty and desirable desirable plate for display. Not in quite the same class as the eminent Moorcroft, but nowadays becoming increasingly hard to find and sought after by collectors of Staffordshire ware. For me they straddle the two adjoining eras of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. I can't make up my mind which era they rightly belong to.
Collectors should beware there was apparently another company not associated with Colcloughs called "The Stanley Pottery Ltd" also in Longton making wares between 1928 and 1939 who used a similar pottery mark - so don't get confused by the two different wares. If anyone can send in any photos and information on the 'other' Stanley, please write in by email.
