Richard Champion of Bristol
Richard Champion (1743–1791) was an English merchant and porcelain manufacturer, who emigrated to the United States in 1784.
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
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.
Plymouth porcelain was the first English hard paste porcelain, made in the county of Devon from 1768 to 1770. After two years in Plymouth the factory moved to Bristol in 1770, where it operated until 1781, when it was sold and moved to Staffordshire as the nucleus of New Hall porcelain, which operated until 1835. The Plymouth factory was founded by William Cookworthy. The porcelain factories at Plymouth and Bristol were among the earliest English manufacturers of porcelain, and the first to produce the hard-paste porcelain produced in China and the German factories led by Meissen porcelain.
"Europe", about 1770, from a set. Height 32.7 cm, V&A Museum.
Covered butter pot, c. 1770, William Cookworthy & Co., Bristol (or possibly Plymouth), England, hard-paste porcelain, overglaze enamels
Armorial mug, Plymouth
Another view
