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Title: English porcelain : a handbook to the china made in England during the eighteenth century as illustrated by specimens in the national collections
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Church, A. H. (Arthur Herbert), 1834-1915 South Kensington Museum
Subjects: Pottery, English
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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laze printed Worcesterin the South Kensington Museum, illustrates the merits of these-ordinary productions of the factory. One of the modes of decorating porcelain for which Worcesterbecame famous was that of transfer-printing over the glaze. Thepieces so decorated are commonly tea-services, plates, bowls,mugs, and jugs. Usually the porcelain is thin and of very beautifulquality. The transfer is, as a rule, black, called in the old salecatalogues jet enamelld; but a purplish lavender and a deepbrick-red colour were also used. Some of the engraved copper-plates show not only fine workmanship, but a freedom and grace-fulness which make the impressions taken from them, whether onporcelain or on paper, really beautiful as works of art. But twoor three specimens of this over-glaze transfer-printed porcelain,bear a mark1 (for the simple reason that they never passed through 1 The crossed swords with the figure 9 between the points are found on a cup.in the collection at the Worcester works.
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Fig. 27.—WORCESTER : COFFEE-CUP, PRINTED IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE,South Kensington Museum. No. 3215, 53. Fig. 28.—WORCESTER : MUG, TRANSFER PRINTED IN BLACK. Schreibek Collection. WORCESTER. 47 a painters hands), save that in a part of the picture the initials orthe name of the engraver occasionally appear. R. Hancock fecitand R. H. Worcester, sometimes are found separately or together ;the latter mark, having the two letters as a monogram, and sur-mounted by an anchor, perhaps stands for Richard Holdship. Inthis connection it may be mentioned that when some verses, com-mendatory of Josiah Holdship, appeared in the Gentletnari sMagazine for December, 1757, the Worcester Journal, in reprintingthem in the following January, added the following couplet:— Hancock, my friend, dont grieve tho Holdship has the praise,Tis yours to execute, tis his to wear the bays. Hancock was in truth the engraver; the two Holdships, Josiahand Richard, owned between them one-fourth of the capital of theporce

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