Derby Porcelain Gallery
A varied selection of Derby Porcelain products both antique and modern
By Derby artists and designers that exemplify the Derby style. Porcelain plates, figures and vases that demonstrate the superb quality of Royal Crown Derby products.
Not all Derby products are as collectible as the items featured below and most are well within range of any porcelain collectors budget. The products we feature here are simply used to demonstrate what you could find. If you search hard enough.
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Derby Artists
A look at some talented Royal Crown Derby Artists
Renowned for superb quality porcelain, Royal Crown Derby utilised the services of some of the best and most respected ceramics artists.
They included great names like William Quaker Pegg, William Billingsley, Cuthbert Gresley, Zachariah Boreman, John Brewer, Albert Gregory and Daniel Lucas
In the early days William 'Quaker' Pegg took over from William Billingsley as chief flower painter and early Derby and Chelsea-Derby cabinet plates ...
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Derby Marks
Early Derby Marks and newer Royal Crown Derby base marks.
Derby marks are many but most follow the same theme, with a cypher surmounted by a crown.
Dating early Derby is slightly more difficult than the more modern Royal Crown Derby, but dating Derby porcelain is much easier than many of the early English porcelain factories.
Derby porcelain was produced at three main factories.
Those being ...
Nottingham Road from 1756 to 1848
King Street from 1848 to 1935
And; ...
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Chelsea Porcelain Factory
The history of the Chelsea Porcelain company, its products and its anchor mark periods.
The Chelsea porcelain factory was founded in 1743 by two Frenchmen; Charles Gouyn a goldsmith and Nicholas Sprimont a silversmith.
The Chelsea porcelain manufactory was the first important porcelain manufactory in England
Its early soft-paste porcelain products were aimed at the aristocratic market.
The first director Nicholas Sprimont was a silversmith by trade, but few documents survive to put ...
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