Richard Champion of Bristol
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Richard Champion (1743–1791) was an English merchant and porcelain manufacturer, who emigrated to the United States in 1784.
Bristol porcelain plaque with portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin, from Champion's factory, 1770s
Bristol porcelain 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.
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 Plymouth in 1770, the second Bristol factory. The product of the earliest factory is usually called Lund's Bristol ware and was made from about 1750 until 1752, when the operation was merged with Worcester porcelain; this was soft-paste porcelain.
Garniture of three vases, c. 1773, painted by Michel Socquet
Boy frightened by a Dog, c. 1772–1775