New Hall Porcelains

by Golden, Geoffrey A.

• ISBN13: 9781851494637
• ISBN10: 1851494634
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-30
• Publisher: Acc Art Books

Summary

In this fascinating volume, china-ware expert Geoffrey Godden shows how collectable and decorative New Hall Porcelain is. The factory produced over three thousand patterns which served to enhance a long series of attractive yet very functional forms. They were welcomed for their excellence over a period of over fifty years, from 1782 to 1835. The success of these pleasing Staffordshire porcelains in the marketplace helped to turn the Staffordshire Potteries, then famed only for its earthenwares, into a porcelain - producing center of world importance. The New Hall firm in England were market-leaders in their own time, their shapes and styles widely copied by their several imitators. New Hall Porcelains presents historical facts in a novel, helpful manner, supporting with a broad selection of clear illustrations. Geoffrey Godden is able to illustrate how diverse and attractive these Staffordshire 'Real China' porcelains can be, placing New Hall in its rightful position in the study of British porcelains and their history.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	8	(2)
Prelude	10	(7)
Colour Plates	17	(48)
Preface	65	(3)
Chapter I The West Country Connection	68	(20)
Chapter II The Patent comes to Staffordshire - The Tunstall Period	88	(37)
Chapter III The New Hall, Marks, Markets and Prices	125	(18)
Chapter IV The New Hall Works and the Partners	143	(16)
Chapter V Fidelle Duvivier and other Decorators	159	(32)
Chapter VI The New Hall Porcelains, c.1784-1812	191	(86)
Chapter VII The Blue Printed Designs and Blue Painted Patterns	277	(39)
Chapter VIII The 'Cottagy' Oriental Style Designs	316	(13)
Chapter IX The On-glaze Bat-printed Designs	329	(32)
Chapter X The Bone China Wares, c.1812-1835	361	(45)
Chapter XI Post-1835 Developments on the New Hall Site	406	(10)
Appendix I The Patents	416	(6)
Appendix II The Land Tax Returns	422	(3)
Closing Notes, Resumé of Dates and Selected Bibliography	425	(8)
Checklist of Illustrated Patterns	433	(2)
Acknowledgements	435	(2)
Index	437