Antique Derby Porcelain

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Based in Derby, England, Derby porcelain is renowned for its superb bone-china, or soft paste porcelain. It has been in business producing highly decorative or ornamental china and tableware since about the year 1750.

The firm, now known as Royal Crown Derby, began as a partnership in 1745 between a Huguenot immigrant from Saxony, André Planché and William Duesbury, a painter of porcelain from the Chelsea factory and that of Longton Hall.

In 1770, Duesbury acquired the Chelsea porcelain factory in London and operated it until 1784 while producing works now known as “Chelsea-Derby” porcelain. In 1776 he also acquired the remains of the antique Bow porcelain factory, thereafter taking its removal elements to Derby.

In 1773, King George III granted permission to incorporate the Derby manufactory into a company known as Crown Derby. After subsequent successive ownerships, Queen Victoria, in 1890, appointed Crown Derby with a Royal Warrant that gave the firm the title “The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company. The firm continues to employ a large number of artisans at its Osmaston Road Works and remains very popular, making dinner wares in varied Imari style patterns.

There is, in Derby, a Visitor Center for Royal Crown Derby that features a museum having antique porcelain collections while offering tours of the factory.

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