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 139
The result was toOpaqu* Porcelain, confirm to Champion the sole and exclusive right to use the Cornish clay and stone forthe manufacture of transparent ware, but it allowed other pottersthe free use of the stone (petuntze) and of the clay (kaolin) in anyproportions diSering from that specified in… … 1774 was marked inside with a script J. H., having the crossbetween the initials and the date 1774 below them. This date is theearliest marked date known. The paste and decoration were of thefinest quality. In the same year Edmund Burke ordered a tea setfor presentation to a Mrs. Smith, with whom…
Pottery -- England · Collectors and collecting
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