Castle Hedingham Ware

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Castle Hedingham Ware An art pottery studio founded by Edward Bingham at Castle Hedingham, Essex, in the United Kingdom. This pottery was in production from 1864 to 1901 and made medieval and Tudor type wares. Bingham produced some massive wares, with 'Essex' jugs up to three feet high being typical. Bingham also made many colourful and vivacious pots of average size, frequently mimicking the medieval revival style.

The pottery had a raw quirkyness and is often compared with "Elton Ware" pottery made by Sir Edmund Elton of Clevedon Court in Somerset at about the same time. Elton however was more adventurous with his materials however, and experimented with a type of coloured clay known as slip, as well as specialist glazes including a striking development of the craquel glaze technique common in contemporary ceramics. Castle Hedingham pottery was less refined in its finish. Of all the main art studio potteries of the latter part of the 19th century (the others include Martin Brothers), Castle Hedingham was comparatively neglected.