New Hall
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- Author(s) Holgate, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1987
- Pages 243pp; illus
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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1st edition published as 'New Hall and its Imitators', 1971. The second edition was substantially revised and omitted discussion of imitators. Chapters include: 'The patent comes to Staffordshire';'Members of the New Hall Company'; 'The New Hall China Manufactory, 1781-1835'; 'The paste and glaze'; 'The wares'; 'Decorations, decorators and marks'; 'Traps for the unwary'; 'A reconstruction of part of a book of New Hall patterns'. Appendices include: 1] 'Transcriptions of 'Documents connected with Richard Champion'; 2] Transcriptions of 'Documents in the William Salt Library', 1773-1843; 3] Transcriptions of 'Insurance policies taken out by New Hall', 2, 1792, 1810. Touches on Richard Champion and also on Fidelle Duvivier, decorator