As of December 1, 2010, Cornishware will again be sold in the United States. For the previous 3 years, the merchandise assortment has not been available as the company restructured after falling into receivership. First manufactured in the 1920′s by T.G. Green & Co. in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, a county well-known for its pottery, Cornishware has adorned millions of homes and become a design classic. This distinctive blue and white banded tabletop pottery is thought to derive its name from the blue sky and white-crested waves of Cornwall.

In the 1960s, the product assortment was updated by a young designer named Judith Onions. It affirms much for her skill and sensitivity that this restyled range was embraced as affectionately as the originals had been. Over the past 20 years, the range has become highly prized by collectors, with the sighting of both rare original designs and Onions classics the subject of much excitement – and ever-increasing prices.

The story was not so happy for T.G.Green & Co. itself, however. It had become increasingly difficult for the Victorian pottery in Derbyshire to compete in the contemporary age and, after a series of owners had done their best ever since the Green family sold it in 1964, it at length closed in 2007. Fortunately, Cornishware had followers in the right places. Lifelong admirers Charles Rickards and Paul Burston, teamed up with designer and branding advisor Perry Haydn Taylor, whose wife Vik is an enthusiastic Cornishware collector, to come to the rescue. Together with Bill Barlow of Bigfish, they have the business expertise and passion to revigorate the classic blue and white hoops to their rightful position.