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Antique Porcelain China Restoration and Repair Services
Decorated porcelain cups, saucers, and bowls originated in China thousands of years ago. Beginning in the 1100s, porcelain pieces (called “china”) were imported to Europe. These porcelain artworks usually had the familiar blue and white patterns and were generally only available to wealthy English, German, and French families. After seeing the popularity of porcelain china pieces, European companies began to produce their own porcelain pieces to meet the demand of consumers and the German Meissen, French Limoges, and English Royal Doultan porcelain factories lead the way. In England, Spode China created bone china pieces to compete with Meissen’s hard paste porcelain pieces. Despite the competition, antique porcelain saucers, plates, figurines and cups were still only affordable to wealthy European families. As the materials used to make functional dinnerware shifted in the 1800s, porcelain china plates, saucers, bowls, cups, and figurines became ornamental artwork rather than functional items. Many of these antique porcelain china pieces are quite collectible today. Some of the main antique porcelain china manufacturers were: Royal Doulton, Royal Albert, Spode, Wedgwood, Royal Worcester, Noritake, Meissen, Limoges, Haviland, Royal Copenhagen, Lenox, Franciscan, and Red Wing Pottery.
We have restored many types of antique porcelain china and would love to repair or restore yours!
 Spode Copeland China Repair and Restoration
Josiah Spode, founder of the famous factory, established his own pottery around 1770 acquired ownership of the famous British factory in 1776. The company initially focused on producing blue and white porcelain wares, like the Blue Italian and Tower Blue and Willow lines, to capitalize on the popularity of the ceramics being imported from China. As imports from China waned, the company developed a method to produce bone china, originally marked as Stoke China. William Copeland worked as a salesman for the company in the late 1700s and became a partner and manager of the business in the early 1800’s. In 1833, his son became the sole proprietor of the business as there were no Spode heirs to inherit the company, then called Spode and Copeland. The Copeland’s dropped Spode from the company name for most of the 1900’s; however, it was reinstated in 1970 to commemorate the founding of the pottery company.
We have restored many pieces of Spode Copeland porcelain china and would love to repair or restore yours!
 Belleek China Repair and Restoration
In 1858, John Caldwell Bloomfield, a native of the village of Belleek, Ireland, partnered with Robert Williams Armstrong, an architect from London interested in ceramics, and David McBirney, a wealthy Dublin merchant, to form a pottery company in order to employ local residents harmed by a potato famine. The company recruited skilled craftsman and potters from London and started out by producing common domestic ceramics. However, in 1863 the company began producing their own china in order to demonstrate the craftsmanship and artistic skills of their employees. Although the company’s domestic wares remained their best sellers, the artistic china items they produced in the last half of the 1800s and the early 1900s are highly sought after by collectors around the world today.
We have restored many pieces of Belleek porcelain china and would love to repair or restore yours!
Most items can be fully restored for under $100. Please EMAIL US for a free estimate- you'll be pleasantly surprised!
"Thanks for restoring our family heirloom!" - Blair, SD
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