Makers

Albert Eagleman Jeffrey

Albert 'Eagleman' Jeffrey - Furniture maker. Robert Mouseman Thompson trained many local craftsmen, many of whom created their own similar trademarks - known collectively as the Yorkshire critters. These critters include: Gnomeman, Beaverman,...

Betty Joel

Betty Joel was a British furniture, textile and interior designer active in England from c.1921 to 1937. She began to design furniture and retailed it through her shop in Sloane street London eventually moving to larger premises in Knightsbridge,...

Georg Jensen

Georg Jensen - Silvermaker Georg Jensen - Johan Rohde Georg Jensen Ltd Georg Jensen (1866-1935) was a Danish fine artist, sculptor and metalsmith. He set up his own company as a silversmith in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1904. It has evolved into a...

George Jones

George Jones and Sons Ceramics, Abbey pottery 1861-1951 Trent Pottery Stoke, Stoke on Trent, North Staffordshire, England. Manufacturers of decorative earthenware and majolica-style wares c.1861-1951. From 1872 porcelain was also produced. By...

Henri Jacot

Henri Jacot Of Paris, France - Clockmaker. He and his nephew also Henri Jacot worked in Paris from 1822 to 1900. They were famous carriage clock makers, "probably the best of the Paris producers of carriage clocks towards the end of the 19th...

Jackfield Pottery

Jackfield Pottery, a ceramics factory, was founded by Richard Thursfield in 1713. It was named after Jackfield, a town in Shropshire. He and his sons made a type of earthenware pottery known for its lustrous black lead glaze similar to Japanese black...

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Jennens and Bettridge

Jennens and Bettridge. Producers of high quality papier-maché wares. Items included trays, pole screens and even chairs.

Junghans

Junghans, a watch and clock maker from Germany. Originally created by 1861 Erhard Junghans in 1861. In the 1950s Junghans worked closely with the Bauhaus designer Max Bill to create clocks and watches.

Maison Jansen

Founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen. 23, rue de l'Annonciation, Paris. From its beginnings Maison Jansen combined traditional furnishings with influences of new trends including Anglo-Japanese style, the Arts and Crafts movement and...

Robert Jones

Robert Jones I, London Silvermaker. 1st mark as plateworker 1774. Dates seen 1780, 1798. Entered into a partnership with John Scofield after his death, his wife entered her own mark in 1783.

Wedgwood Jasperware

Jasperware was invented by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s. It is produced in different colours, the most well known being pale blue known as Wedgwood blue. It is usually referred to as stoneware but sometimes as a type of porcelain. Characteristically...