Bristol porcelain
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Bristol porcelain covers porcelain made in Bristol, England by several companies in the 18th and 19th centuries. The plain term "Bristol porcelain" is most likely to refer to the factory moved from Pl
Mug, c. 1748–1752, Lund's Bristol factory, soft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamels.
Cup and saucer, 1774, from the Champion period. The Latin inscription reads: "R. and J. Champion gave this as a token of friendship to J. Burke the best of British wives, on the third day of November, 1774". This was Jane, Mrs Edmund Burke; Champion was a friend, who helped Burke's election that year as a Bristol MP.
Garniture of three vases, c. 1773, painted by Michel Socquet
Boy frightened by a Dog, c. 1772–1775
Richard Champion of Bristol
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Richard Champion was an English merchant and porcelain manufacturer, who emigrated to the United States in 1784.
Bristol porcelain
…also changed at some point, improving it considerably. Cookworthy's Plymouth factory was removed to Bristol in 1770 and was afterwards transferred to Richard Champion of Bristol, a merchant and shipowner who had been a shareholder from 1768. Champion's Bristol factory lasted from 1774 to 1781, when the business was sold to a…
Richard Champion illustrated in Hugh Owen's 200 years of Ceramic Art in Bristol (1873)
Bristol porcelain plaque with portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin, from Champion's factory, 1770s