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The Welsh Tailor and his family.

Derby Porcelain Works

Category

Ceramics

Date

1830 - 1840

Materials

bone china porcelain

Measurements

14.8 x 10.2 cm

Place of origin

Derby

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Collection

Saltram, Devon

NT 870986

Summary

Pair of figures, porcelain, The Welch Tailor and his Family, Robert Bloor, Derby Porcelain Factory, 1830-40

Full description

Versions of these figures were first produced at Derby in the 1760 as model number 62. They were advertised in a sale catalogue of 1771 as 'one small pair Welch taylor and family riding goats, elegantly finish'd in flowers and burnish'd gold £1 0s 0d.' The figures at Saltram were produced under Robert Bloor (1778-1846), who leased the Derby works from William Duesbury in 1811. It appears that Bloor - who had worked as a clerk at for Duesbury and had no artistic background - struggled to make a profit. However, a large team of incredibly fine painters worked at Derby during Bloor's management, including William 'Quaker' Pegg and Moses Webster, who produced wonderful botanical services. In 1828 Bloor's deteriorating mental health led him to relinquish management of the works to James Thomason. An auction of stock was advertised in The Morning Post on 24 May 1836, with goods offered without a reserve price 'in consequence of the long illness of Mr. Robert Bloor, the principal partner.' In October 1844, a hearing of the Lunacy Commission declared Bloor unfit to run the manufactory and agreed he had not been of sound mind since 1828. The porcelain works was taken over by his grandaughter, who sold it on before it ultimately failed in 1848.

Makers and roles

Derby Porcelain Works, potter

References

John Twitchett, 1980, Derby Porcelain; Peter Bradshaw, 1990, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848,, pp. 221-2

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