Royal Doulton #D.6449 Venetian Scenes Creamer

Title: Royal Doulton #D.6449 Venetian Scenes Creamer.
Manufactured By: Royal Doulton, Made In England.
Height: 10 cm.
Diameter: 4 cm.
Info: Beautifully decorated Venetian Scenes pattern creamer with a turquoise blue handle.
The D.6449 pattern was in use between 1955 to 1961. 
Royal Doulton is an English ceramic manufacturing company dating from 1815. 
Operating originally in Vauxhall, London, later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in the centre of English pottery. 
From 1853 to 1902 its wares were marked Doulton & Co., then from 1902, when a royal warrant was given, Royal Doulton.
In the 1960s, the company made a series of acquisitions. In 1968 it purchased Minton China, a company founded in 1793, and Dunn Bennett, a company founded in 1876 manufacturing hotel ware. These were followed by Webb Corbett and Beswick in 1969.
In 1972 Pearson PLC purchased Doulton & Co. Pearson had a controlling interest in Allied English Potteries and combined the two tableware groups under the Royal Doulton Tableware name, but in 1993 Pearson returned the Doulton group to public ownership, and it was listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The company made further acquisitions in the 1990s but sales were stagnant and in 1997 the company was forced to restructure, cutting its workforce and range of products.
It is now part of WWRD Holdings Ltd., the name being an acronym for the main components of the business: Waterford, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton
Condition: Very Good, no faults on the piece.
Price: R 265.00 Inc Vat.