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William Cookworthy (12 April 1705 – 17 October 1780) was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology. He was the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain, like that imported from China.
Bristol porcelain, like that of Plymouth, was a hard-paste porcelain: [11] "It is harder and whiter than the other 18th-century English soft-paste porcelains, and its cold, harsh, glittering glaze marks it off at once from the wares of Bow, Chelsea, Worcester or Derby". [10]
The manufacture began to produce porcelain only in 1800 [1] 1770: Rörstrand: Stockholm: Sweden: The company was established in 1726; however, it began to produce porcelain wares only in the 1770s 1771: Limoges porcelain: Limoges: France: Limoges maintains the position it established in the 19th century as the premier manufacturing city of ...
The sale at auction in 2003 of a tureen in the form of a hen and chickens for £223,650 was then the auction record for English 18th-century porcelain. [54] In 2018 a pair of plaice -shaped tureens of c. 1755 from the collection of David Rockefeller and his wife fetched $300,000 (both sales at Christie's).
Liverpool porcelain is mostly of the soft-paste porcelain type and was produced between about 1754 and 1804 in various factories in Liverpool. Tin-glazed English delftware had been produced in Liverpool from at least 1710 at numerous potteries, but some then switched to making porcelain. A portion of the output was exported, mainly to North ...
A patent granted to the factory in 1735 by Louis XV specifically describes the right to make porcelain façon de Japon, "in imitation of the porcelain of Japan;" its reference to ten years' successful experiment on the part of Ciquaire Cirou (c. 1700–1751) [8] is the basis for dating the factory's origins to 1725, found in many sources.
To produce Niderviller's porcelain, a fine white china-clay known as kaolin was brought from Germany until Baron de Beyerlé bought some of the first kaolin mines, in France, at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche near Limoges, a long way from Niderviller. The paste produced from the Saint-Yrieix kaolin was white, highly translucent and produced pottery ...
Vincennes soft porcelain cup, 1750–1752 Vincennes soft-porcelain vase, 1753 Vincennes plant pot, c. 1753 The unexpected deaths in 1750 and 1751 of both brothers Fulvy created a financial impasse [ 6 ] that was resolved when the King stepped in and made of Vincennes the object of royal patronage, though less than a manufacture royale ; it ...