The Vintage Hamper Company

The Vintage Hamper Company

The Perfect Present...

Traditional high quality fitted picnic hampers, picnic baskets and accessories, and English vintage china

Or make the best wedding, birthday, anniversary, engagement or anniversary present you will ever give.

• Elegant willow picnic hampers and baskets fitted with quality accessories -  & the unique addition of English vintage bone china
• Willow chiller baskets, tweed picnic chiller bags & rugs 
• Lovely accessories for Garden and Home
• Traditional soft toys
• Gorgeous scarves and quilts in hand printed Indian cottons

From the mid 16th century imported Chinese Porcelain was highly prized in Europe and its production method a closely guarded secret. The German Meissen factory first unlocked the formula in Europe in 1708 and the first English success came in 1748 in Thomas Frye’s factory in Bow, East London.

By 1750 there were  130 potteries in Staffordshire and by the end of the century Josiah Spode had perfected the process of making what came to be know as bone china at his factory in Stoke - using bone ash and white clay from Cornwall, fired in the heat of Staffordshire coal.

In 1791 the East India Company announced it would no longer be importing Chinese Porcelain – and for almost 200 years fine bone china produced in and around Stoke on Trent became an almost exclusively English product.

Contact us

If you have any questions or we can help you in any way please contact us on 07720840351 - if we can’t get to the phone please leave a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible or alternatively please complete the contact form below, or drop as an e-mail at cathy@thevintagehampercompany.uk

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