Rockingham, 1745-1842

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First published 1983. Profusely illustrated. Provides a narrative account of the business from its earliest origins in 1745 to closure, with a strong emphasis on the description and illustration of products. Has chapters: 'A country potworks, 1745-1768'; 'The first finewares, 1768-1785'; 'The Leeds - Swinton Partnership, 1785-1896'; 'The 1806 crisis and the Brameld family'; 'The Brameld proprietorship, 1806-1842'; 'Brameld earthenwares'; 'Brameld transfer-printed wares'; 'The introduction of porcelain'; 'Rockingham porcelain teawares'; 'Rockingham porcelain dinner and dessert wares'; 'Rockingham ornamental porcelain'; 'Rockingham figures'; 'Artists, modellers and other workpeople'; 'The Bramelds and the works after 1842'; 'Imitations, reproductions and other misleading wares'; 'Marks, backstamps, pattern numbers and cyphers'. Nine appendices provide supporting data eg '1826 'Leeds Mercury' advertisement for letting of Swinton Pottery; Christie's sale of Rockingham porcelain, 1830; transcriptions of Fitzwilliam estate correspondence re Pottery, 1826-41 [pp401-4]; Annual salaries paid to selected employees, c1840; Selected financial statements, 1803-43. Family tree descending from George Brameld, 1706-85, and Mary Wright, 1708-63