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Royal Crown Derby
Established in 1750, Royal Crown Derby is the only manufacturer producing luxury, branded English Fine Bone China made exclusively in England.Bone china is basically made by adding bone ash (burned animal bones) to kaolin and petuntse. English porcelain makers discovered this combination of ingredients about 1750, and England still produces nearly all the world's bone china.
Though not as hard as true porcelain, bone china is more durable than soft-paste porcelain. The bone ash greatly increases the translucence of the porcelain.
Derby, like Worcester and the Potteries district of North Staffordshire was home to an important centre of ceramics manufacture during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Under its first “china maker” André Planche, a refugee from Saxony and settled in. Lodge Lane, Derby, where he presently gained a precarious living by making small figures of animals, birds, etc., which he took to be fired to a local maker of clay pipes.
He is chiefly remembered now as being associated with William Duesbury and John Heath in founding the famous Derby establishment.
The Nottingham Road factory produced ornamental ware such as vases and figures because the soft paste that was used could not withstand boiling water and was therefore unsuitable for tableware.
The paste, though, was ideal for delicate modelling and the Derby factory produced highly decorated pieces imitating French Rococo and other continental styles as well as scenes which reflected British rural and theatrical life.
In the 1756 Planche entered a partnership with William Duesbury and the business developed a new paste which contained glass, soaprock and calcined animal bone. This enabled the factory to produce high-quality tableware.
Duesbury's success was in a measure due to his engaging the very best available talent, as, for example, when in 1769, he engaged John Bacon, the finest sculptor of the day, to produce a set of models.
1755 King George III honoured the company by granting the use of the crown in the back stamp.
1890 The title “Royal” came later from Queen Victoria, giving the company the unique title of “Royal Crown Derby”. Queen Elizabeth granted the company the Royal Warrant in 1978.
“Much of the early production dating back to the early 1750’s consisted of figurines popular as table decorations.
Of particular interest to the Gypsy and Traveller community is pattern number 1128, or “Old Imari”, which was first recorded around 1882.
1128 is the original pattern number recorded in the pattern books held in the Royal Crown Derby Museum archives.
The highly collectable Royal Crown Derby pieces are hand finished in 22ct Gold
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