Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Chelsea Porcelain factory was set up in the middle of the eighteenth century by two Frenchmen, the silversmith Nicholas Sprimont and the jeweller Charles Gouyn.
c1744 Chelsea started to produce luxury soft paste porcelains for a rich, fashionable and aristocratic clientele.
Many of its earliest pieces (c.1745-9) are marked with an incised triangle
Later Chelsea pieces are often marked with a raised anchor (1750-2), a red anchor (c.1753-8) or a gold anchor (1759-72).
c1748 After relinquishing full control of the Chelsea factory to Sprimont in around 1748, Gouyn is linked with the production of so-called 'Girl-in-a-Swing' porcelains (c.1750-59), which were sold in St James's Street.
1769 Ill health forced Sprimont to sell the Chelsea factory to James Cox in 1769.
1770 Cox in turn sold it to William Duesbury of Derby in 1770 resulting in the so-called 'Chelsea-Derby' or 'Derby-Chelsea' phase of production.
1784 The factory was destroyed
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] British Museum