T. G. Green & Co was founded by Thomas Goodwin Green of
Boston, Lincolnshire in around 1864. Having made a fortune in Australia, Green returned to England to marry Mary Tenniel, the sister of
Punch and ''
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' illustrator Sir
John Tenniel. He bought an existing pottery in
Church Gresley from Henry Wileman, while on honeymoon in
Scarborough Cornishware stockists carried a standard range of lettered jars, such as flour, sugar, salt, currants, sultanas, raisins, tea and coffee, but purchasers could request jars with customised wording (for instance, paprika, arrowroot, thyme, mace, viota, macaroni). The retailer would then send a request slip to the factory and customised jars would be created then sent back to the store. T. G. Green never kept records of these requests, so there is no complete list of customised jars produced. The signature colour was referred to as 'E.blue' – meaning
electric blue. and in 1959 Sunlit Yellow was introduced to the range. In the 1960s new designers were brought in from the
Royal College of Art – Scandinavian designer Berit Ternell and, most notably, Judith Onions. She restyled the Cornishware range to give it the distinctive shapes that are still in use today. Some of Onions' designs are held in the
V&A collection, as part of the Ceramics Study Galleries. == Cornishware today ==