We have mentioned before the mode of decoration by transfer printing adopted by Janssen on the Battersea enamels and by Sadler and Green on the Liverpool delft; this style of decoration was extensively employed by the Worcester decorators for the fillings of the panels with landscapes and rustic figures, after engravings by Watteau, Gainsborough, and others. Dresden and Sèvres wares were imitated at Worcester, and it is generally thought that when this was done—during the period 1768-1783—the Worcester ware was at its best. This was the middle period, and towards the time that ended about the beginning of this century the designs became laboured, and lavish use of gold rendered the work vulgar and showy. Josiah and Richard Holdship and R. Handcock are names of some of the principal artists of the early and middle period. Donaldson, Neale, and Foggo were names of enamellers who worked at the Worcester pottery. A curious design in this ware of a tobacco-pipe bowl (Fig. 84) is in the Schreiber Collection. PLYMOUTH porcelain manufactory was established by William Cookworthy (1705-80), who was the first to discover in England the real China clay or kaolin, about the year 1755. Cookworthy had a good knowledge of chemistry, and was a wholesale chemist and druggist. He found both the China clay and China stone at Tregonning Hill and at two other places in Cornwall. A patent was granted to him in 1768 for the manufacture of porcelain, and the firm of “Cookworthy and Co.” established itself at Coxside, Plymouth. A French ceramic artist named Sequoi was engaged to superintend the works. The Plymouth works were not of long duration, for shortly afterwards they were removed to Bristol, and Richard Champion, of Bristol, obtained a licence from Cookworthy to make the Plymouth porcelain, and bought the entire rights from the latter in 1773. From this date until 1781 Champion owned the Castle Green works at Bristol which formerly belonged to Cookworthy. Statuettes, vases, rustic pieces, teapots, cups and saucers, &c., were made in both Plymouth and Bristol china, many of them being imitations of Sèvres and Oriental wares. [Illustration: Fig. 84.—Bowl of Tobacco-pipe, Worcester Ware.] In Staffordshire many porcelain works are still in existence that began in the last century or early in this, such as Longton Hall, New Hall, Spode, Wedgwood, and Minton, but space prevents us from giving any details of their work. Liverpool, Lowestoft, Coalport, Swansea, Nantgarw, and Rockingham may be mentioned as other places where English porcelain was made. CHINESE PORCELAIN. [Illustration: Fig. 85.—Chinese Vase.]