VICTORIAN COALPORT COALBROOKDALE PORCELAIN SMALL TEAPOT

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VICTORIAN COALPORT / COALBROOKDALE PORCELAIN SMALL TEA POT. VARIOUS LOSSES & DAMAGES, BOCAGE ETC. SOLD AS SEEN AND AS FOUND. APPROX 12 CM HIGH TO TOP OF HANDLE. The Coalport factory was founded in 1795 by John Rose with his previous partner, Edward Blakeney. Rose served his apprenticeship on the other side of the river at the Caughley factory.The factory flourished, acquiring a reputation for the finest decoration, boosted by the acquisition in 1820, of painters from the Swansea and Nantgarw manufactories in Wales, bringing in William Billingsley and Walker, and having the dual benefit of shutting down a serious market competitor. The China Works continued to thrive, improving the quality of the porcelain body and adding to its stable of the very best painters and gilders, including such illustrious names as Jabey Aston, James Rouse, Kelshall and the Birbecks, so that by the time of Rose's death in 1841, the company was one of the leading producers of the time.