Gray's Pottery, also spelled as Grays Pottery and formally known as A.E. Gray Ltd. was a British pottery company based in Hanley, Staffordshire, later Stoke-upon-Trent, which existed until it was taken over by Portmeirion Pottery in 1960.[1]
The company was founded by, and named after, Albert Edward Gray (1871–1959).[2] Gray's business began in Stoke-upon-Trent (one of the six towns of the City of Stoke-on-Trent) in 1907 and became a production operation in Mayer Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent by 1912.[3] It returned to Stoke-upon-Trent in 1933[4] and ceased by 1962.[5] The company, which was noted particularly for the quality of its design in the 1920s and 1930s,[6]