Antique Derby Porcelain 1748-1848 Makers Marks Artists Decorators / Scarce Book

Description

Lavishly illustrated with approximately 500 color and black-and-white photographs, this scholarly text is an in-depth pictorial guide to English Derby porcelain manufactured between 1748 and 1848.  The superb photography, identifying captions, rich narrative, and information on marks combine to make this book an indispensable reference.
DERBY PORCELAIN 1748-1848  AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
by John Twitchett, Antique Collector’s Club, England, 2002.
This in-depth book  “is almost certain to supercede the author’s earlier
Derby Porcelain
as the standard reference on the subject.  It contains much new information and documentary evidence and a large quantity of hitherto unpublished illustrations drawn from a wide variety of sources.  For ease of reference the book has been divided into five main sections, each dealt with in alphabetical order:  History; People Associated with Derby; Production Materials and Techniques; Subject Matter and Patterns; Usage (classification by type of product).  There is also a section on marks and appendices on The Old Derby Pattern Books, price lists of groups and single figures, as well as a previously unpublished twenty page illustrated appendix on cup shapes.  This is a comprehensive study of the Nottingham Road Derby factory, its staff and its wares, with detailed biographies on anyone and everyone connected with production and sales during the factory’s first hundred years.”
Heavy 8.6” x 11” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  320 pages.
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