History
The Maling pottery was founded at North Hylton near Sunderland in 1762, and transferred to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1817 The pottery got its name form the French family Malin.They settled in England in the sixteenth century to escape the threat of religious persecution as they were Protestant Huguenots.Pieces from the the first fifty years do not carry any form of identification Museum pieces with known provenance suggest that Maling wares were little different from those being produced by other local potteries at the time.
When the business moved to Newcastle in 1817 the then owner, Robert Maling, began to mark pieces with his name The output seems to have been mainly simple, domestic wares made for use by the local working people It was Robert Maling’s son, Christopher Thompson Maling, who took the business in a new and profitable direction The discovery of a way to make marmalade jars and other containers by machine brought significant income
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