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Ralph Hall Swan Bank, Tunstall, Staffordshire 1802 - 1849 John & Ralph Hall 1802 - 1822 Ralph Hall 1822 - 1836 Swan Bank, Tunstall Ralph Hall & Son 1836 - 1841 Ralph Hall & Co 1841 - 1849 Ralph Hall worked in partnership with his brother John originally at the Sytch Pottery in Burslem, but after 1811 Ralph took over Swan Banks Works at Tunstall and was responsible for production there. As early as 1814 it is suggested that they were more or less working independently, although the partnership was not dissolved until 1822. Ralph continued to trade in his own name until taking his son into partnerhip in 1836 and then restyling the title again to R.Hall & Co in 1841. The company ceased trading c1849 and the Swan Banks Works were taken over by Podmore Walker & Co in 1853. The company was heavily involved in the North American market and there is evidence of cooperation with the Podmore Walker company in that respect and possibly in other respects. Ralph was responsible for the production of two major series of patterns, in blue, the Select Views Series and the Picturesque Views Series and a number of other individual patterns of various styles and colours possibly having to change his source material after the Copyright Act of 1842. Marks accorded to him include; HALL Generally attributed to the partnership with his brother 1802 - 1822 R.HALL (poss. 1814) 1822 -1841 R.HALL & SON 1836 - 1841 R.HALL & CO. 1841 - 1849 R.H. & CO. 1841 - 1849 These could be printed or impressed. They are recorded as working in earthenwares but the Select Views Series includes in the cartouche STONE CHINA. Listed Patterns R.Hall's Select Views Series STONE CHINA Biddulph castle, Staffordshire Boughton House, Northamptonshire Bramber Church, Sussex Castle Prison, St Albans, Hertfodshire Church of St. Charles and Polytechnic School Vienna, Germany Conway Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales Eashing Castle, Surrey Gyrn, Flintshire, Wales The Hospital near Poissy, France Knole, Kent Laxton Hall, Northamptonshire Luscombe, Devonshire Oatlands, Surrey Pain's Hill, Surrey Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire Valle Crusis Abbey, Wales Warleigh House, Somersetshire Wilderness, Kent Worcester Cathedral (Untitled) R.Hall's Picturesque Scenery Series Alton Abbey, Staffordshire, England Broadlands, Hampshire Cashiobury, Hertfordshire Croe House Crome Court, Worcester Cilford Hall, Suffolk Dreghorn House, Scotland Dunsany Castle, Ireland Fulham Church, Middlesex Klostenburg, Germany Llanarth Court, Monmouthshire Norwich Catherdral, Norfolk Palace of St. Cloud, France Palace of St. Germain, France Panshanger, Hertfordshire St.Woolston's Kildare, Ireland Terwin Water, Hertfordshire Trematon Castle, Cornwall Worcester Cathedral Other Patterns Asiatic Pheasants The Bosphoros Carolina Chapoo Italian Buildings Sardinia Sheltered Peasants Singanese Variety Patterns listed in red are illustrated below

Select Views Series

	Eashing House, Surrey
	Pain's Hill Surrey
	Warleigh House, Somerset
	Church of St.Charles and Polytechnic School, Vienna, Germany

Picturesque Views Series

Panshanger,Hertfordshire

Other Patterns

	The Bosphoros
	Italian Buildings
	Sheltered Peasants
	Sardinia
	Singanese