Pair of Wirksworth Derby Porcelain tea ware and saucers, Adam Urns patt. c.1775,

Pair of Wirksworth Derby Porcelain tea ware and saucers, Adam Urns patt. c.1775, (image 1/4)
Pair of Wirksworth Derby Porcelain tea ware and saucers, Adam Urns patt. c.1775, (image 2/4)
Pair of Wirksworth Derby Porcelain tea ware and saucers, Adam Urns patt. c.1775, (image 3/4)
Pair of Wirksworth Derby Porcelain tea ware and saucers, Adam Urns patt. c.1775, (image 4/4)
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We offer a pair of Wirksworth Porcelain tea ware and saucers, Adam Urns pattern c.1770, - please see photos for visual description. The saucers are just over 5 inches diameter, the tea bowl is 3.25 inches diameter, the coffee cup is just over 3 inches overall diameter to end of handle. Both saucers are sound, both tea bowl and cup have hairline damage Wirksworth China Factory 1772-1777 : There was certainly a porcelain factory at Wirksworth during this period as contemporary records mention invoices for materials, advertisements for labour and sale of stock etc.. Josiah Wedgwood mentioned this factory in 1775 "...a china works, lately begun at Wirksworth, by Mr Gell of Hopton who lately made some use of a fine white clay found near Brassington in Derbyshire..."Goods produced included tea and coffee wares, bowls, figures, jugs vases etc. with on and under glaze printing being done. It is fair to assume that, given that the Derby factory was only 13 miles away, quite a number of workers from this factory would have been employed at Wirksworth and taken their various skills with them. So that when the products are identified we should probably look for some similarities with the goods from Derby. Pierre Stephan and his son John are both recorded as going to Wirksworth from Derby. Jewitt says, in the Sketch of the Life of William Billingsley, read more
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