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 131
nnection with the Bristol works, when he writes : I have not had the least reason to complainEarliest of R. Champions behaviour. The first adver- Bristol tisement of Bristol china is found in 1770, and one of the earliest examples is a moulded cream-boat of very dry opaque body, made wholly of… … ^ A Beautiful Group of Old Bristol. inartistic clotty colour, representing a Chinese landscape, with TheBlacksmiths Arms, accompanied by the motto, By hammer andhand all arts do stand. This bore mark No. 2. Anotherpiece, a mug, had a part of a drinking song, with the music scorein the interior.…
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