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The Royal Worcester Factory, founded by Dr. John Wall and company,
in 1751, was combined with its rival, the Chamberlain Factory, in 1840.
The Chamberlain factory was known for its finely painted porcelain with
boldly colored grounds and white reserves containing delicately painted
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The bright polychrome images of birds and bugs on this Royal Worcester saucer brings to mind the bright colors of the flora and fauna we'll be encountering this spring. Royal Worcester, founded in 1751 by Dr. John Wall and William Davis, to increase employment in the Worcester area, is thought to be one of the oldest English porcelain factories still working today. The Drexel Founding Collection has a matching teacup and the pair were recently displayed in the exhibition Holding Your Drink: 3,000 Years of Drinking Vessels from the Drexel and Salzberg Collections, curated by Museum Leadership students in 2017.Label Type
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The incorporation of random naturalistic elements such as birds and insects as decorative motifs on ceramics was made popular by the Meissen tradition of painting these creatures over imperfections in the ceramic body caused by the firing process.
