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This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing. This porcelain is acclaimed as some of the finest and most translucent porcelain ever produced. These two porcelain factories are linked through the artistic and creative activities of the enigmatic William Billingsley and had a strictly limited production over only three or four years during the period 1812-1820. The earliest chemical analysis of these porcelains were undertaken almost 100 years ago and are compared with the results of more recent analyses The chemical composition of these porcelains, their artistic decoration and the struggle to maintain quality production is reviewed. Scientific explanations are proposed for the characteristic Swansea duck-egg porcelain translucency and for the Nantgarw iridescence. The book is well illustrated throughout and affords a good basis for the further in-depth study of Swansea and Nantgarw porcelains.

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This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing. This porcelain is acclaimed as some of the finest and most translucent porcelain ever produced. These two porcelain factories are linked through the artistic and creative activities of the enigmatic William Billingsley and had a strictly limited production over only three or four years during the period 1812-1820. The earliest chemical analysis of these porcelains were undertaken almost 100 years ago and are compared with the results of more recent analyses The chemical composition of these porcelains, their artistic decoration and the struggle to maintain quality production is reviewed. Scientific explanations are proposed for the characteristic Swansea duck-egg porcelain translucency and for the Nantgarw iridescence. The book is well illustrated throughout and affords a good basis for the further in-depth study of Swansea and Nantgarw porcelains.

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CONTENTS
1 Introduction and Present-Day Scenario = 1
 References = 11
2 Porcelain Manufacture in South Wales in the 19th Century = 13
 2.1 The Influence of William Billingsley = 19
 2.2 Factory Output = 20
 References = 25
3 Historical Research Issues = 27
 3.1 Pattern Numbers : Absence in Nantgarw = 28
 3.2 Swansea Set Pattern Numbers = 34
 3.3 Attribution of Artist and Source = 36
 3.4 Swansea and Nantgarw Artists = 38
 References = 44
4 A Chronological Summary of the Billingsley Family and Their Contribution to Porcelain Manufacture and Decoration = 47
 References = 52
5 Burnishing and Gilding = 53
 References = 56
6 Commercial Exploitation = 57
 References = 60
7 Service Types and the Importance of Nomenclature in Their Attribution = 61
 7.1 Sponsors of Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains = 65
 7.2 A Cautionary Word = 66
 References = 68
8 Armorial Porcelains = 69
 8.1 Armorial Provenancing and Historical Dating = 73
 References = 76
9 Documentary Porcelain and Historical Provenancing = 79
 References = 85
10 The Production of Porcelain Services = 87
 10.1 Gilding Versus Painting = 87
 10.2 Copies of Well-Known Named Services = 89
 10.3 Difficulties in Attribution = 92
 References = 95
11 The Scientific Analysis of Porcelain = 97
 11.1 Porcelain Bodies—A Scientific Appreciation = 100
 11.2 The Production of Porcelain : Source Materials and Chemistry = 102
 11.3 Lewis Weston Dillwyn''''s Recipes for the Swansea Porcelain Body = 103
  11.3.1 The Chemistry of Phyllosilicates = 109
 11.4 Early Analyses of Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains = 111
  11.4.1 Summary of the Wet Chemical Analyses of Eccles and Rackham = 113
 11.5 Later Analytical Studies = 114
 11.6 General Analytical Conclusions = 119
 11.7 Molecular Composition of Porcelain Bodies from Modern Microanalytical Studies = 121
 11.8 Final Analytical Conclusions = 124
 References = 126
12 Named Artists = 127
 12.1 The Three Williams—Turner, Price and Billingsley = 128
 References = 131
13 Classification of Factory Output = 133
 Reference = 134
14 Nantgarw Porcelain : Named Services = 135
 References = 148
15 Swansea Porcelain Named Services = 149
 References = 156
16 Miscellaneous Named Services = 157
 16.1 Summary of Stylised Services with Descriptive Names = 157
 References = 160
17 Conclusions = 161
 References = 164
18 The Discovery of a Long Lost Nantgarw Dinner-Dessert Service = 165
 Reference = 171
19 The Attribution of Unknown Porcelain to Swansea or Nantgarw : A Protocol = 173
 19.1 Measurements of Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains = 188
 References = 190
20 Statement Made by Henry Morris to Colonel Grant Davidson in 1850 = 191
 References = 195
21 William Billingsley—An Epilogue = 197
 References = 201
Appendix A = 203
Appendix B = 207
Appendix C = 209
Appendix D = 217
Appendix E : A Detailed Comparison Between The Lord Ongley Derby Service and its Nantgarw Precursor = 223
Appendix F : Nantgarw Porcelain : Measurements and Sizes = 245
Appendix G : Swansea Script Marks and their Attribution to William Billingsley''''s Decoration = 249
Glossary = 269
Index = 275