The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every classJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every class
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Pottery, British -- History
From these weekly lists of “work don by Barton, Boyer,” and others, I
add, for the same purpose, the following highly interesting extracts:--
4 hantick Jarr, with heads, wanting to be flowered.
4 ditto, with handles.
1 Bottle, with ornement handles.
48 Compotiers, all made with the Darby Clay.
24 Ornement Plates, made with ditto.
Perfume Jarrs, with handles.
Repairing of Plaister Heads, and greasing of sum Bluework.
Season Vauses.
Season Perfume Jar.
Perfume Pot with Indian figures.
Junquill beaker with stag-head handles.
Ornament Vauses, with Chinease figures.
Cleaning of Flint, Treading of Clay, &c.
A Jarr, with Dog and Rabbits.
Pidgeon House Perfume Pot.
Perfume pots, with boys and girls dancing.
2 Large Vauses, with Venus at her Toylet.
Perfume pots, with 2 Boys.
4 hantike bottles, with handles.
4 Scollopt Bottles, with handles.
2 hantike Perfume Vauses, with 3 goats heads.
24 Strawbery Compoteirs, made with the Darby Clay.
Crimson and Gould Tea Saucers.
6 large ornement Pedistols for the Grand Popore.
5 large Popore Perfume Pots to Ditto.
1 Square Perfume pot, Dickarated with heads of the 4 Seasons.
Hantike Vauses, with 3 figures each.
Making a Large Pedestol for the Quarters of the World.
Making of Clay Sheep, and c, to go to Darby, and helping at the
Kiln, and c c.
Perfume Jar on 4 feet.
Perfume Vause, with 3 children a dauncing.
Making of Lambs, Sheep, Dogs, Calfes, and c c.
Square Perfume Jarr, with Pearc’d Neck and Globe cover.
Mr. Duesbury continued working the manufactory at Chelsea, together
with his large and important works at Derby, until the year 1784, when
he pulled down the buildings, removed all that was useful to Derby, and
so totally put an end to the manufacture of “Chelsea China.” For some
years he had been gradually drafting off the workmen, models, &c., to
Derby, and in the end finally gave up the manufacture at Chelsea, and
continued his works, entire, at their original place, Derby.
It has been said, and generally believed, that the excellence of the
Derby works dates from the time when the Chelsea workmen and the
Chelsea models were brought to it; but this is, undoubtedly, a great
and a grave error. The truth is, the Derby works had risen to such
extreme eminence, and had attained to so high a degree of excellence,
as to more than rival Chelsea, which, in consequence, began to decline.
The successful owner of the Derby establishment was thus enabled to
purchase the Chelsea works, as he also did those of Bow, and to carry
them on, as long as he considered advisable, conjointly.
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