Identifier: transferprinting00turn (find matches)
Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ure another prolonged success wasachieved. A very clever apprentice, named ThomasMinton, assisted Turner in producing a famous service(for tea) in 1782. It was called the Broseley Dragon,which also became popular. In the Victoria andAlbert Museum, London, there is a quart jug, printed(underglaze) in blue flowers which is inscribed JamesKennedy, 1778. It is marked with a blue C—the earlyCaughley mark—and it is stored in the ShropshirePottery and Porcelain Division. (See Fig. Dl.) Thedate may or may not be the time of production ; but itlooks early. Turner, no doubt, would begin experi-menting for a suitable underglaze, as other potterswere doing, and, probably, he had gained a certainamount of knowledge about it at Worcester. As soonas he acquired the factory he commenced to rebuildand enlarge it. This was accompHshed in 1775—vide Marks and Monograms, fourth ed., p. 746. Judgingfrom results he appears to have been an energetic,clever, and well educated man. The latter might be 58
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Development in the 18th Century. expected because he was the son of a clergyman. Hewas a chemist—so far as the science was known then—a draughtsman and designer, as well as engraver.He was evidently possessed with commercial instinct,and knew how to select good men as assistants. Assoon as he got ready for extended work he went toFrance and brought back some skilled workmen. Wehave it that there were four printing presses workingat Caughley in 1797, so that the transfer business hadvery much increased since the willow pattern wasintroduced. In two years again Turner sold the factoryto John Rose, of Coalport, and retired. He hadevidently made a sufficiency to enable him to retire.Like Sadler he appears to have had the commercialinstinct as well as the artistic faculty. It is a rarecombination. As regards the relations existing between masterand man ; and the interchange of work that tookplace between Worcester and Caughley, about acentury and a half ago, Mr. Jewitt has some veryint

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