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 35
e twofabrics. In the account of Swansea china we noted that Nantgarwworks were started in 1811 and closed in 1814, when Billingsley,the great rose painter, went to Swansea. On his dismissal byDillwyn in 1817 he returned to his old factory till 1819, and it wasduring this period, owing to the… … S-wansea Mug. doubt accounted for the ultimate closing. Yet such was thebeauty of the services, like the one presented to the PrinceRegent, afterwards George IV., that as many as forty gentlemenscarriages had been known to be there in one day. Moreover, theLondon firm.s—Mortlocks especially—bought…
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