Collecting Royal Doulton Animals

Royal Doulton started producing animal figurines in the late 1880s and today they are as popular and as collectable as ever. The craze for collecting china animals really took off in Victorian England. The Victorians were extremely fond of animals and loved to decorate their home with pretty things and ceramic companies were soon supplying them with all kind of ornaments. Initially, Doulton produced basics, like drainpipes and stoneware jars, but by as early as 1880 they employed specialist modellers to produce animal figurines.