The Royal Crown Derby Guide Video

Quality Porcelain Figures, Figures and Gift Fine Bone China, Peak District.

Royal Crown Derby is synonymous with superlative quality and distinctive productions. The Royal Crown Derby range of figures, gift, and collectables is the culmination of 250 years of craftsmanship and traditional skills. They are renowned for 250 years for the manufacture of lightly potted and exquisitely decorated porcelain and bone china. Other ranges include tableware, giftware and the paperweights and miniatures that are highly collectable today. The Film captures all the elements of the beauty of the Porcelain gift and figures.

The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company is a privately owned Limited Company. It employs about 300 people and manufactures the highest quality English Fine Bone China at its factory on a four and a half acre site on Osmaston Road, in Derby, England.

The Company produces bone china tableware, gift and collectables, for sale primarily in china and glass retailers and department stores, both in the UK and overseas. The Porcelain is pieces of beauty both functional and collectable are brought together in classic and contemporary designs. The use of rich colours and hand-gilding with 22-carat gold ensures each piece is totally unique.

The Company also runs a popular Visitor Centre at Osmaston Road, providing factory tours, demonstrations, museum, factory shop and restaurant for gifts and refreshments. The present factory was established in 1878 but the business traces its origins to the original factory which was set up in Nottingham Road in about 1750. Queen Victoria granted permission to include the title "Royal" in the company name in 1890.

Quality and Distinctive Ceramics Productions

Renowned for 250 years for the manufacture of lightly potted and exquisitely decorated porcelain and bone china, Royal Crown Derby is synonymous with superlative quality and distinctive productions - including tableware, giftware and the paperweights and miniatures that are highly collectable today.