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Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain. : The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
, Faber and Faber, London UK 1986, 1986 Hardcover, 366 pages, ENG, 275 x 205 x 35 mm, book is in good order, dustjacket , with dozens of illustrations in b/w, index from A to Z over practically every pottery and porcelain artist worldwide, biography's. ISBN 9780571113972.
Porcelain production in Britain has always been privately funded, so factories would come and go depending on the business acumen of their managers and the depth of the pockets of their financial backers. Some of these small short-lived potteries did important pioneering work, although they are now lost to history. Only four early factories made it through a significant period of time and are therefore still well-known today: Chelsea, Bow, Derby and Worcester. Of these new English porcelain factories, many had grown out of the countless existing potworks where excellent earthenware was made, but several were started by enterprising immigrants. In Chelsea, a Walloon Huguenot silversmith called Nicholas Sprimont applied knowledge picked up in France to turn his silver dishes into porcelain. In Bow, Irish immigrant Thomas Frye conducted experiments in his friend?s backyard using ?Cherokee clay? imported all the way from America.
