In these Japanese patterns some of the designs are unusually elaborate and intricate, and the workmanship is characterized by extreme precision and regularity, while the gilding and colour, especially the deep reds and blues, are rich and full in the extreme. Some of the vases in this style vie with those of the native art of the Japanese, and are not excelled by any other house. The principal artists employed at the present time at the works are Mr. Charles Palmere, Mr. Cooke, Mr. John Randall, Mr. Birbeck, Mr. A. Bowdler, Mr. J. Hartshorne, and Mr. Jabez Aston; and among those formerly engaged here was Mr. R. F. Abraham, a student of Antwerp and Paris and a successful follower of the school of Etty. Modellers of a very high class in their respective branches are also employed, and the excellence of their work is apparent in all the higher class productions of this establishment. [Illustration: C C’ C C C S S Sx S^x So S S Figs. 629 to 640.] The marks used by the Caughley works have already been fully described.[84] After the removal of these works to Coalport, the same letters, both C and S, for many years were used. At Coalport, however, marks have been adopted, perhaps, more sparingly than at any other works; and the great bulk of the goods have been manufactured, from the first down to the present time, without any mark at all. On some examples of the early part of the present century, the written name of “Coalport,” thus--_Coalport_[handwriting]--appears; but these are of very rare occurrence. Another mark, adopted somewhat later, though only used very sparingly, was simply the letters [Illustration: _CD_] for Coalbrookdale, or the same two letters conjoined thus--[Illustration: _CD_]; sometimes also Coalbrookdale appears in full, and at others the contraction “C Dale,” in similar writing letters. Another mark, adopted in 1820, was of large size, and will, perhaps, be as well understood by description as engraving. It is a circle of nearly two inches diameter, in which is a wreath of laurel encircling the words, “Coalport Improved Felt Spar Porcelain,” in four lines across. Surrounding the wreath are the words, “Patronised by the Society of Arts. The Gold Medal awarded May 30, 1820;” while beneath, and outside the circle, is the name “I. Rose and Co.” This mark was adopted consequent on Mr. John Rose obtaining the Society of Arts’ gold medal for “his improved glaze for porcelain” to which I have before alluded, and the articles on which it appears are of extremely good material and very perfect glaze.