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Chelsea was known for its figures, initially mostly single standing figures of the Cries of London and other subjects. Many of these were very small by European standards, from about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (6 to 9 cm) high, overlapping with the category of "Chelsea Toys", for which the factory was famous in the 1750s and 1760s.
Gouyn helped Nicholas Sprimont (1716–1771) set up the Chelsea Porcelain Factory around 1745. But in about 1748 Gouyn severed his links with Sprimont and the Chelsea Porcelain Factory and set out to compete with his own 'Girl-in-a Swing' manufactory, so-called after a figure in the Victoria & Albert which has given its name to a whole class of ...
Basket, c. 1758–1760. Duesbury was born on 7 September 1725. [2] to William Duesbury, currier, of Cannock in Staffordshire.[3]Around 1742 he was working as an "enameller" painting china in London, where he remained until 1753; he decorated Chelsea porcelain and perhaps other wares.
Bow porcelain factory, (1747–1776) Caughley porcelain; Chelsea porcelain factory, (c. 1745, merged with Derby in 1770) Churchill China; Coalport porcelain; Davenport; Denby Pottery Company; Goss crested china; Liverpool porcelain; Longton Hall porcelain; Lowestoft Porcelain Factory; Mintons Ltd, (1793–1968, merged with Royal Doulton ...
Soft-paste porcelain (sometimes simply "soft paste", or "artificial porcelain") is a type of ceramic material in pottery, usually accepted as a type of porcelain. It is weaker than "true" hard-paste porcelain , and does not require either its high firing temperatures or special mineral ingredients.
Bow parrot, c. 1760. The green and the crimson-purple on the base are two of Bow's distinctive colours. The Bow porcelain factory (active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain.