. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ed to a greaterextent than any other. The patterns in many cases beingalmost identical with those of Worcester and other places—which, of course, arose from the fact of the difierentworks copying from the same original Oriental models—theware made by Champion is sometimes apt to be appropriatedby collectors to that manufactory. It may, however, easilybe distinguished by those who are conversant with
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. ed to a greaterextent than any other. The patterns in many cases beingalmost identical with those of Worcester and other places—which, of course, arose from the fact of the difierentworks copying from the same original Oriental models—theware made by Champion is sometimes apt to be appropriatedby collectors to that manufactory. It may, however, easilybe distinguished by those who are conversant with the pecu-liarities of its make. In blue and white. Champion produced dinner, tea, andcoffee services, toilet pieces, jugs, mugs, and all the varietiesof goods usually made at that period. The blue is generallyof good colour, and the painting quite equal to that of othermanufactories. Some of these pieces are embossed, and ofreally excellent workmanship. A good deal of the blue andwhite ware was marked with the usual cross, but it appearsmore than probable that the greatest part of this kind ofgoods passed out of the works unmarked. Another characteristic class of goods made by Champion. was the imitation of the most common Chinese patterns,exam})les of which, from my own collection, are shown inthe accompanying engraving of a saucer and a of the choicest examples of the highest class of Bristol SERVICE MADE FOR BURKE. 245 art existing at the present day, is the tea-service of whichthe cnp and saucer engraved below forms a part, the cupand saucer now being in my own collection. This example isalso highly important as showing the perfection to which themanufacture of porcelain had been brought at the time ofthe transfer of the works from Cookworthy to Champion—the service having been made in 1774-5, within a very fewmonths after the establishment of the works in Bristol. It
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