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The ABC of collecting old English china, giving short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800 (1908)

Blacker, J. F · London : London Opinion Curio Club · leaf 119

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models. For instance, both Bow and Plymouth manufacturedsalt-cellars, which were very much in vogue. They consisted ofsea-shells resting upon corals and other shells, and were usuallymodelled in white porcelain. At Bow similar shells in soft pastehad been made some fifteen years earlier. Again, the… … Plymouth—Shell Salt«cellar. Kitty Clive and Woodward, the actor, were made at Bow in 1758, and about twelve years later were copied at Plymouth. Both factories—indeed, all the factories—imitated _. . ^ , the Oriental in form and decoration, and Oriental. from the nature of their business…

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