Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom . plates—one of which was marked R. Hancock, fecit; and another -q^j. infers, therefore, that both Hancock and Holdship had worked at Caughley.(That, of course, does not follow absolutely. Thepresence of the plates there could be accounted forin other ways.) Then, Mr. Jewitt raises the wholequestion of whether the monogram reallymeant Robert Hancock or Richard Holdship. Heinclined to the belief that the monogram stood forHoldship, and, as a confirmation, states that he hasseen a plate inscrib
Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom . plates—one of which was marked R. Hancock, fecit; and another -q^j. infers, therefore, that both Hancock and Holdship had worked at Caughley.(That, of course, does not follow absolutely. Thepresence of the plates there could be accounted forin other ways.) Then, Mr. Jewitt raises the wholequestion of whether the monogram reallymeant Robert Hancock or Richard Holdship. Heinclined to the belief that the monogram stood forHoldship, and, as a confirmation, states that he hasseen a plate inscribed thus— He pertinently argues that, as the anchor jy was a rebus forHoldships name, placing it above the initials was astrong argument in favour of that opinion. Any judiciousminded person would come to the same he (Jewitt) does not tell us whether this particularplate was engraved at Derby or at Worcester. Ineither case the inference ought to be the same—thatthe rebus and initials meant but one person, namely,Richard Holdship. It seems absurd to suppose that 52 Plate No. Fig. B 2. JUG, CREAM WARE, BLACK Fig. B 3. MUG, CREAM WARE, BLACK & Co. Development in the 18th Century. Hancock would put the anchor over his own initialsunless he was ordered to do so by the man above himat the factory. If he really did so it would surely bewith an inward protest (in the spirit of Galileo) thatthe deed was wrong, and that the initials were meantfor Richard Holdship after all. There can be littledoubt that, no matter what engraver did the work,Richard Holdship was in the habit of having his initialsplaced on many of the pieces as they were manu-factured at Worcester. In the catalogue of theceramic contents in the museum of the RoyalPorcelain Works at Worcester there is a separate listof transfer printed specimens. The first on the list isnumbered 500. The lot consists of a cup and saucerof egg-shell porcelain with the famous engravin
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