Doulton — the Lambeth and Burslem pottery known for its art stoneware and, later, Royal Doulton figures — appears in poems about London craft and the transformation of industrial pottery into art; The Doulton Lambeth stoneware of the 1870s and 1880s — decorated by named artists including Hannah Barlow — gives poems about women in the decorative arts a specific location: south London, the smell of the river, incised horses running round a jug; A poem about the Thames might include a Doulton Lambeth vase as part of the riverbank's industrial and artistic history: "stoneware fired a mile from the water that shaped this city"; Royal Doulton's later figures — the Ladies series, the Balloon Man, the street sellers — appear in poems about the sentimentalising of working-class life; In a poem about a charity shop, a Royal Doulton figurine of "The Favourite" stands on the shelf: "her crinoline still perfect, her expression still serene, her world long gone"; Doulton's transition from utilitarian stoneware to collectable figurines mirrors the Victorian period's own journey from utility to ornament, a theme available to any poet of the domestic.