In 1898, William Howson Taylor’s father, Edward Richard Taylor, the Principal at the Birmingham School of Art, founded The Ruskin Pottery, named after the artist & philosopher John Ruskin. William Howson Taylor took over Ruskin in 1912.The company experimented and created unique and beautiful glazes. The formulas were kept secret, and when William Howson Taylor died in 1935, the formulas were lost forever.

This mark is from ~1898:

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