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Aynsley is one of the best-known names in the Staffordshire Potteries, with a history reaching back to the late eighteenth century. John Aynsley of Lane End, who died in 1829, was a well-known decorator on creamwares and other pottery. His grandson, John Aynsley II, who established the Portland Works in 1861 as a model china manufactory was an outstanding entrepreneur and china manufacturer. For much of the twentieth century Aynsley remained a family firm producing wares of a very high quality. Aynsley services were selected by both the present Queen and by Diana, Princess of Wales, as wedding gifts from the British pottery industry.