James Robinson, Edward James Leadbeater and Robert Leason established the Victoria Pottery Company in 1882 and occupied premises at the Victoria Works on Lonsdale Street, Stoke-on-Trent. Robert Leason left the business in 1883 and the company continued only to c.1889. The Victoria Works was later renamed Coronation Pottery.

Two bottle kilns of the Victoria Works Lonsdale Street, Stoke-on-Trent

Though the business was short-lived, the Victoria Pottery Co. produced very finely modeled majolica and received considerable acclaim. In Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900, Jewitt states “they produced all of the usual varieties of useful and ornamental goods; the desert services, game-pie dishes and other articles were of more than average excellence.” Known examples include a sunflower tea service, a cheesekeeper with bamboo stalks on a basketweave ground, and a game pie dish with its finial composed of opposed boar heads. The mark of Victoria Pottery is an impressed ‘VP/C’ within a triangle of swords.