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
The business was afterwards carried on successively by “Chamberlain and
Sons” and “Chamberlain and Co.” During the continuance of the two works
it is believed that by far the greater part of the entire production of
porcelain in the kingdom was made at Worcester; and certainly the books
and the samples of various sets still remaining in the show-rooms bear
evidence both of the high patronage and the extent of orders received,
and of the beauty of workmanship which the proprietary had attained
in their ware. The successive changes in the proprietary were as
follows:--1786–1798, Robert Chamberlain, senior, Humphrey Chamberlain,
and Richard Nash (sleeping partner); 1798–1804, Humphrey Chamberlain
and Robert Chamberlain, junior; 1804–1811, the same, with G. E. Boulton
as sleeping partner; 1811–1827, the same, without Boulton; 1828–1840,
Walter Chamberlain and John Lilly. The marks then used, from 1840 to
1850, being _Chamberlain & Co., Worcester_, in writing italics, and
CHAMBERLAIN’S in capital letters.
In 1800, a third china manufactory was established in Worcester by
Mr. Thomas Grainger, nephew of Humphrey Chamberlain, who had for many
years taken an active and principal part in Chamberlain’s works. This
establishment, of which a few words anon, is still continued by the son
of its founder and partners under the firm of “G. Grainger and Co.”
[Illustration: Fig. 538.]
[Illustration: Figs. 539 to 545.--Productions of Messrs.
Chamberlain, 1851.]
The two principal manufactories, those of “Flight, Barr, and Barr,” and
“Chamberlain and Co.,” continued until 1840, when they amalgamated, and
the two firms formed one joint-stock company. The plant and stock were
removed from Warmstry House to Messrs. Chamberlain’s premises, and the
works were there carried on under the style of “Chamberlain and Co.”
The mark used by Chamberlain and Co. was as follows:--
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