Teapot, Worcester factory, 1879. Bone china. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017 (2018.62.89a, b). Public domain.
How this directory is compiled
We include only companies with documented bone china activity, and we separate making from branding. Each entry gives the sources we checked and when. Inclusion does not imply that any product has been tested or certified to ISO 5644, EN 1900, BS 8654 or any other standard, and we do not rank makers. A maker’s statement that it makes bone china is that maker’s declaration; independent verification would be a laboratory analysis of the fired body.
A backstamp tells you whose name is on a piece, not necessarily who made the ceramic body — brands often commission from other factories. Companies that make only porcelain, stoneware or earthenware are not listed. Companies we have not yet sourced are listed at the foot of this page. Makers can send corrections and evidence to the editor.
Disclosure. The Bone China Institute is privately operated by people who work in the ceramic tableware industry, including people connected with TCL Ceramics, Arta Broch, LAZZARO and Royal Salisbury. It is not affiliated with any standards body, museum, university or trade association, and it holds no accreditation. Directory entries for those four companies are marked “Connected with the Institute”. The directory does not rank makers, and the same sourcing rules apply to every entry. How the Institute is run.
Current manufacturers
Companies that make bone china in their own factories today. A manufacturer may also make for other brands.
Royal Crown Derby
United Kingdom · Osmaston Road, Derby Founded c. 1750; Osmaston Road from the late 1870s
Manufacturer
Porcelain has been made in Derby since about 1750. The Royal Crown Derby works on Osmaston Road, a former workhouse site bought in 1876, is famous for Imari patterns and rich gilding.
Status: Makes its fine bone china at Osmaston Road, Derby, and runs a visitor centre there. Reported to be one of the few British firms making all its bone china in the UK.
United Kingdom · Barlaston, Staffordshire Founded 1759; bone china from 1812
Manufacturer
Josiah Wedgwood’s firm made bone china from 1812 for a period and later permanently. Owned by Fiskars Group since 2015. Much volume production has been made overseas since the 1990s.
Status: Barlaston production was paused from 29 September 2025 for up to 90 days. In February 2026 Fiskars announced role reductions and said Barlaston would focus on high-end hand-crafted products, including Jasperware and Prestige Bone China. Made-in-England status applies to Barlaston production only; much Wedgwood tableware is made at the group’s factory in Indonesia.
Germany · Hohenberg an der Eger, Bavaria Founded 1966; Hohenberg works reopened 1997
Manufacturer
Founded as an importer by Bernd T. Dibbern. In 1997 the company reopened the porcelain manufactory founded at Hohenberg in 1814 by C. M. Hutschenreuther, to make fine bone china by hand.
Status: Active. States that its fine bone china is turned by hand at Hohenberg rather than pressed, and that most production involves manual work.
Japan’s best-known tableware house. Its official historical record dates the start of bone china research and production to 1932, and it describes making Japan’s first bone china dinner set.
Status: Active. Offers bone china alongside white porcelain and its Premium White body for hospitality.
Japan · Nagoya Founded 1946; bone china mass production 1965
Manufacturer
Says it was the first company in Japan to mass-produce bone china, in 1965, and launched its first bone china collection for hotels and restaurants in 1975. A member of the Ishizuka Glass Group.
Status: Active, supplying hotels, restaurants and airlines. Some retail ranges are listed by retailers as made in Indonesia.
Japan · Hakusan, Ishikawa Founded 1908; bone china from 1978
Manufacturer
Founded in Kanazawa in 1908. Began bone china production in 1978 and built a new bone china factory in 1982. States that its fine bone china contains about 50% bone ash.
Status: Active; launched new fine bone china pieces in 2026. Has developed recycling of crushed bone china into fertiliser.
South Korea · Cheongju, North Chungcheong Founded 1943
Manufacturer
Founded in 1943 and the first to introduce bone china to Korea. Has supplied the Korean presidential office and has made bone china for international brands. Launched its premium Prouna brand in 2004; Prouna is made in Cheongju with more than 50% bone ash, according to the company.
Status: Active, supplying hotels, restaurants and department stores.
Incorporated in 1991 as Tata Ceramics, an associate company of Tata Power, combining British bone china expertise with imported and Indian raw materials. Has made fine bone china for leading European and American brands, and for India’s presidential residence, Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Status: Active; makes fine bone china under contract for international brands and hospitality groups.
Thailand · Saraburi province (factory); Bangkok Founded 1983
Manufacturer
Thailand’s principal tableware maker, producing bone china and hard porcelain at Saraburi. Its Royal Bone China brand, the company says, contains 45% bone ash.
Royal Doulton commissioned a factory near Jakarta in 1995, and production of much of the group’s tableware moved there. Royal Albert production transferred to Indonesia in 2002. Now part of the Fiskars Group with Wedgwood and Royal Doulton.
Status: Active. Makes bone china for the group’s brands; backstamps read “Made in Indonesia”.
Germany · Mettlach, Saarland (headquarters) Founded 1836; bone china from 1847
Manufacturer
Formed in 1836 by the merger of the Boch and Villeroy potteries. Made bone china at Wallerfangen from 1847, and introduced its modern bone china ranges in 1976. Its Premium Bone Porcelain is a related body.
Status: Active; lists bone china among its tableware materials. Which of its factories makes its current bone china ranges has not been confirmed for this edition.
Russia’s first porcelain manufactory, known in the Soviet period as the Lomonosov factory and famous for the Cobalt Net pattern. Developed its own thin-walled bone china in the twentieth century.
Status: Active. Its 2026 catalogue presents a bone china collection alongside hard porcelain.
China · Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong Founded 2003; production from 2005
Manufacturer
Founded by Liu Quanhui, who invested in a Shenzhen bone china works in 2003; production began in November 2005. The company states that its fine bone china contains 48% bone ash, and that it also makes premium porcelain and vitrified stoneware. It has supplied porcelain for Chinese state banquets.
A bone china producer in Tangshan, the centre of Chinese bone china manufacture. Catalogued by the Barack Obama Presidential Library as a maker of premium bone porcelain tableware. US customs records show shipments of bone chinaware to hotels and tableware companies.
Status: Trading records to 2019 confirmed; current status not independently confirmed.
Bangladesh · Beximco Industrial Park, near Dhaka Founded 1997; bone china from 1999
Manufacturer
A Beximco company. Commercial bone china production began in November 1999. The company states its bone china contains 52% bone ash and that it is Bangladesh’s largest ceramic tableware exporter.
Status: Active; listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange. Salman F Rahman, vice-chairman of the parent Beximco Group, was arrested in August 2024 and faces multiple corruption and money-laundering cases, which have not yet come to trial; in September 2026 the group said he would step down from Shinepukur’s board. Bangladesh’s ceramic factories depend on piped natural gas, and recurring gas shortages since 2022 have cut or halted production across the sector; buyers should confirm current capacity and lead times directly.
One of Bangladesh’s largest tableware makers, founded by Harunur Rashid Khan Monno and best known for porcelain. It lists bone china among its products alongside porcelain, “new bone china” and ivory china.
Status: Reported bone china capacity of about 250,000 pieces a month; US customs records show bone china shipments from Monno Bone China Ltd. Its availability to export buyers has been intermittent. Bangladesh’s ceramic factories depend on piped natural gas, and recurring gas shortages since 2022 have cut or halted production across the sector; buyers should confirm current capacity and lead times directly.
Companies that design, decorate or sell bone china made wholly or partly by others. Where manufacture is shared, we say so.
Halcyon Days
United Kingdom · London Founded 1950
Brand · commissions
A luxury brand of enamels and fine bone china, holding Royal Warrants. Its sister company Caverswall made its fine bone china in Stoke-on-Trent.
Status: Brand and design. Its bone china has been made by Caverswall, which entered administration in March 2026; current manufacturing arrangements not confirmed. Halcyon Days states that it no longer uses animal bone, using natural minerals instead.
Fine bone china for luxury hotels, restaurants and private clients. Its collections draw predominantly on British design traditions, with a bespoke service for crests, monograms and commissioned patterns. The company states its bone china contains 45% bone ash.
Status: Active; an established presence in hospitality, supplying luxury hotels and restaurants internationally. Made in India.
United Kingdom · Anderton Works, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent Founded 1993
Brand · commissions
A design house specialising in fine bone china for luxury hospitality and retail, known for its decorating skills and bespoke work with chefs. Acquired by Steelite International in 2020. Steelite states its bone china contains 47% bone ash.
Status: Active. Designs and decorates in Stoke-on-Trent; it does not make its own whiteware, which is sourced from other factories, including in East Asia — retailers list at least some ranges with China as the country of origin.
A major British supplier of hospitality tableware. Its own core bodies are vitrified hotelware; its bone china ranges include William Edwards and Rene Ozorio, which it states contain 47% bone ash.
Status: Active. Supplier of bone china ranges; manufacturing location varies by range.
United Kingdom (brand); made in Indonesia · Formerly St Mary’s Works, Longton Founded 1890s (as Thomas C. Wild)
Brand · commissions
Famous for floral bone china teaware such as Old Country Roses. Part of the Royal Doulton group from 1972. UK production ended in 2002, when manufacture moved to Doulton’s factory in Indonesia.
Status: Active brand, sold alongside Wedgwood by the same group. Current retail listings give Indonesia as the country of origin. Brand rather than UK manufacturer.
United Kingdom (brand); made in Indonesia · Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent (historic works) Founded 1815; bone china at Burslem from 1884
Brand · commissions
Doulton bought Pinder, Bourne & Co.’s Nile Street works in Burslem in 1882 and was soon making bone china there; the Royal prefix came in 1901. The Nile Street works closed in 2005. Royal Doulton also sells “fine china”, which is not bone china.
Status: Active as a Fiskars Group brand. Its bone china is made mainly in Indonesia.
United Kingdom · Stoke-on-Trent Founded Spode c. 1770; Worcester 1751
Brand · commissions
The two great historic names entered administration together in 2008 and were bought by the Portmeirion Group in 2009. Both names are still used on bone china today.
Status: Active as brands. Where each bone china range is made should be checked on the backstamp and with the company.
United Kingdom · London (South Audley Street until 2015; later Burlington Arcade) Founded 1827
Brand · commissions
London’s celebrated china retailer, which commissioned its own bone china patterns from Stoke makers such as Minton and Copeland Spode for royal and private clients. It once had production of its own, which it has since sold.
Status: Now a brand that commissions its bone china from manufacturers. The business entered administration in 2024 while a buyer was sought; the name remains in use.
A supplier of tableware to hotels and retailers in North America. Its Fortessa Bone China is described by the company as containing over 40% tricalcium phosphate, from synthetic bone ash.
Status: Active. Does not make its own bone china; ranges are produced by contract manufacturers — US customs records show shipments from Haengnam Chinaware of Korea, for example.
Italy · Venice Name revived in the 2010s; original factory 1764–1812
Brand · commissions
The historic Cozzi porcelain factory in Venice closed in 1812. The name was revived by entrepreneur Antonio Tognana for a range of fine bone china and porcelain decorated with patterns from the Cozzi archive.
Status: Active as a brand. It does not operate its own bone china factory; its whiteware is made by other manufacturers.
A design-led, contemporary fine bone china brand that works with established tableware designers on its collections, for hotels, restaurants and the home. Its ranges include hospitality pieces with a reinforced edge and the Arco collection, which has the look of stoneware but a bone china body.
United Kingdom · Portland Works, Longton Founded 1775; Portland Works 1861
Brand · commissions
Founded by John Aynsley in Lane End (Longton); his grandson built the Portland Works in 1861. A bone china maker of tableware, giftware and commemorative pieces, owned by Belleek Pottery from 1997.
Status: A current bone china brand of the Belleek Pottery Group. Its Longton factory closed in September 2014; where Aynsley bone china is now made has not been confirmed for this edition.
United Kingdom · Duchess China Works, Longton Founded 1921
Brand · commissions
Made bone china teaware at the Duchess Works, Longton, from the 1930s under the Duchess name. Acquired by the Tams Group in 1989; the works later passed to Duchess China Ltd.
Status: The Duchess name is still in the market. Duchess China 1888 Limited, the most recent company at the Duchess Works, entered administration on 18 December 2025; who now makes Duchess bone china has not been confirmed for this edition.
United States · Bristol, Pennsylvania (head office) Founded 1889
Brand · commissions
Founded by Walter Scott Lenox in Trenton, New Jersey. For most of the twentieth century the principal American maker of bone china, and a supplier of presidential services to the White House.
Status: Lenox closed its bone china factory at Kinston, North Carolina — the last fine bone china factory in the United States — in April 2020. The brand continues; the company said its patterns would be designed in the US and made in Europe and Asia.
Houses that made bone china in the past and no longer do so independently, or whose current status we have not confirmed.
Bow Porcelain Factory
United Kingdom · Stratford, East London Founded c. 1747–1776
Historical
Where bone ash entered English porcelain. Thomas Frye’s patents of 1744 and 1749 are associated with its use. Bow made a phosphatic soft-paste, the ancestor rather than the first example of bone china.
Status: Closed.
Official website not yet confirmed · Sources: Wikipedia, Bone china. Checked November 2026.
Spode (later Copeland)
United Kingdom · Stoke-upon-Trent Founded 1770; bone china 1790s
Historical
The works that established the commercial bone china recipe in the 1790s. Traded as Copeland & Garrett and W. T. Copeland for much of its history.
Status: Entered administration in 2008; the name passed to Portmeirion in 2009. The Spode Museum Trust cares for the collection.
One of the great Victorian decorators, known for gilding, majolica and designers such as Christopher Dresser. Minton’s bone china is widely represented in museum collections.
Made exceptional bone china in the later nineteenth century, much of it in the Japanese taste. The Met catalogues the Worcester factory as operating from 1751 to 2008.
Status: Production at Worcester ended; the Royal Worcester name passed to Portmeirion in 2009.
United Kingdom · Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent Founded 1973
Historical
A Stoke-on-Trent maker of handcrafted English fine bone china. Granted a Royal Warrant in 2008; since 2023 By Appointment to HM The King as a fine bone china manufacturer. A sister company of Halcyon Days since 2015.
Status: Caverswall English China Company Limited, a bone china manufacturer trading at Berryhill, Stoke-on-Trent, entered administration on 12 March 2026. Current production not confirmed; listed here until its status is clear.
United Kingdom · Minerva Works, Fenton Founded 1889
Historical
A Fenton maker of bone china tableware and floral models; by the twentieth century it made only bone china.
Status: Closed.
Official website not yet confirmed · Sources: thepotteries.org. Checked November 2026.
Taylor & Kent / Elizabethan
United Kingdom · Florence Works, Longton Founded 1867
Historical
Produced bone china tableware at Longton; traded as Elizabethan from around 1960 and as Elizabethan Fine Bone China from 1982. Became part of Churchill China in 1994.
Status: Florence Works closed and demolished in the 1990s.
Official website not yet confirmed · Sources: China Search. Checked November 2026.
Hudson & Middleton
United Kingdom · Sutherland Works, Longton Founded 1941 (partnership roots 1870)
Historical
Formed in 1941 when J. H. Middleton & Co moved to William Hudson’s Sutherland Works under the wartime Concentration Scheme. A bone china specialist known for mugs and teaware.
Status: Current status not confirmed in this edition.
With Hankook, one of Korea’s two great bone china houses, and in 2007–08 the larger of the two by domestic sales. Its bone china is held by the V&A, and it made bone china under contract for international tableware companies.
Status: Control of the company changed hands in 2016–17, and its Korean bone china production has since closed. An Indonesian affiliate, PT Haeng Nam Sejahtera, makes porcelain and stoneware.
United Kingdom · Atlas Works, Longton Founded 1919 (as Paragon China)
Historical
A Longton bone china maker known for floral teaware and royal commemoratives. Taken over by Royal Albert’s parent in 1960 and later absorbed into the Royal Doulton group.
Status: No longer makes bone china; the name is no longer used on new pieces.
India’s first bone china factory, which began the industry later centred on Rajasthan.
Status: Current status not confirmed.
Official website not yet confirmed · Sources: Wikipedia, Bone china. Checked November 2026.
No makers match that search.
Awaiting verification
Listed in our earlier directory or proposed for research, but not yet sourced for this edition. They are not presented as verified, and some may not qualify: Manifattura di Venezia, Richard Ginori, Rockingham, Davenport, Susie Cooper.
Richard Ginori. Bone china pieces bearing the Richard Ginori name appear in dealer listings, but we have not found documentation of bone china production at its works, or of the reported discontinuation of a bone china line around 2012. Richard Ginori (since 2020 Ginori 1735) is principally a hard-paste porcelain maker, acquired by Gucci in 2013. Not listed until documented.
Not included. Companies whose ware is porcelain, stoneware or “new bone china” rather than bone china are not listed, and nor are houses such as Chelsea, Nantgarw or Swansea, whose porcelain was soft-paste rather than bone china.
