Empire porcelain company Stafforshire England, Lazy River Delft Style decorative plate. Beautifully decorated with an eighteenth-century English countryside scene surrounded by enterlaced flowers.

The plate as 25,5 cm of diameter.

Manufacturer of earthenware and porcelain at the Empire Works Hanley, England. The Empire Porcelain Company started there bussiness in 1895. The original partners were made up of members of the Austrian families of Rosenfeld and Lazarus who ran other ceramic factories in Europe.

The Empire Porcelain Company operated from two factories, one of which may originally have belonged to Grimwades. The Empire Porcelain Company was incorporated as a Limited Company in 1963 but because the works were difficult to modernise the business close in 1967.