Throughout their sixty years of potting the firm of E. Brain & Co based at the Foley Works, Fenton, Stoke-upon-Trent, specialised in bone china tea and breakfast wares of high quality and good design. They constantly employed acknowledged or up-and-coming designers and artists to produce wares at the forefront of design and were associated with good taste and modernity.

 

During the early part of the 20th century they introduced the manufacture of china dinner ware, for a market which was steadily growing. Much high quality “hotel ware” china was specifically designed and produced for use by shipping lines on the great ocean liners.