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Digital PDF Book Instant Download. Download it direct to your iPad, tablet or computer for reading. Over 1000 Pages of Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental POTTERY and PORCELAIN Marks and Monograms on EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL Pottery and Porcelain with Historical Notices of each Manufactory Over 3500 Potters' Marks and Illustrations BY WILLIAM CHAFFERS With an increased number of Potters' Marks Additional Supplement (1908) BY FREDERICK LITCHFIELD This is the Must Have Reference Book For Pottery and Porcelain Collectors 1077 pages Illustrated, If you have any interest in Collecting Pottery or Porcelain, this is a Must Have book for your collection. The original edition of this Rare book was printed in 1908 My Personal 100% Guarantee To You If you Buy this Book and after reading it, You feel that You did not get Your Money's worth from it, Message me and I will cancel your purchase and Refund Your Money. And You Can Keep The Book as My Personal Gift To You. PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION The eighth edition of "Chaffers," which was considerably augmented in the course of my editing, was published early in 1897, and has been exhausted within a shorter period than I expected. Therefore when Mr. Reeves, the proprietor of the copyright, consulted me early in 1899 with reference to a new edition, I was not then prepared with sufficient new information to warrant more than a reprint with trifling corrections. As I share with the proprietor and publisher his anxiety to keep "Chaffers" as the leading and standard authority on Ceramics, and to maintain, and if possible enhance, its reputation for thoroughness, I suggested that an advertisement should be inserted in The Times continuously for some three months, requesting collectors of old china who had anything of importance to communicate, to write to the Editor. The adoption of this plan has resulted in an enormous correspondence, in some cases of a valuable and interesting character, and I have been enabled to add notices of some few small factories hitherto omitted, and to give more correct information with regard to others. In the accounts of Bow, Chelsea, Derby, Longton Hall, Lowestoft, Nantgarw, Rookwood (Cincinnati, U.S.A.), Swansea, Wincanton, and some others, the reader will find the result of some of my more recent notes, partly from correspondence, partly from personal observation; recent monographs on special subjects, such as those of Mr. William Bemrose and Mr. William Turner, have been consulted, and these books have been added to the list of Works of Reference given in the Bibliography. I desire to thank my correspondents, who are too numerous to name. If, as a Work of Reference, "Chaffers" is to retain its high prestige, it must be in a great measure by the co-operation of collectors in communicating any inaccuracies or omissions that may be discovered; and so long as I have the honour of acting as Editor of this work, it will always be my pleasure and privilege to acknowledge with gratitude any such assistance. F. L. EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION When about eighteen months ago, the publishers of the late Mr. William Chaffers's "Marks and Monograms" asked me to re-edit it, and named one year for the completion of my work, the task seemed less onerous than it has since proved to be ; and but for the kind assistance of many friends, who have made some of the different branches of the subject their special study, it would have been impossible. Such work involves considerable correspondence, frequent reference to public libraries and museums, and many visits to private collections ; and (with some few exceptions, where letters of inquiry have met with no reply, either from inadvertence or perhaps a habitual aversion to letter-writing) I have received willing and valuable help from persons too numerous to mention. In many cases an allusion to any fresh information thus obtained will be found in the notice of the Fabrique of which it is the subject. It is well that collectors should bear in mind that such a work of reference as Chaffers's can only maintain its position by information being given to the Editor by curators, collectors, and dealers, who may have in their possession specimens of noteworthy interest. My interleaved copy is ever ready for the reception of such trustworthy and reliable communications. In the work of research my thanks are due to Mr. W. H.J. Weale, the painstaking and obliging Keeper of the South Kensington Art Library ; to Mr. A. B. Skinner of the same Museum ; to Mr. Clarke of Bethnal Green Museum, in the absence of his curator, for assistance in the examination of specimens and tracing of marks ; and to the courtesy and attention rendered by the officials of other public museums and libraries. I would also record my acknowledgment to my Lords of the Council on Education, for consent to reproduce from electrotypes and cliches in the publications of the Science and Art Department the marks and monograms which I have required. Thanks are also due to the skilful and intelligent members of the staff of the Ballantyne Press, in whose hands the production of this work has been placed. They have rendered most valuable assistance by the reproduction of tracings--often necessarily in pencil--of complicated monograms and marks, and have arranged them deftly and neatly. As my notes and emendations are generally incorporated in the text, and are, with few exceptions, not distinguished in any way therefrom, it is right that I should inform my readers in what measure the present edition differs from the previous one, which was a reprint in 1891 of the seventh edition, published in March 1886. Parts I., II., III., which treat of Ancient Romano-British Pottery and Mediaeval Earthenware, are not, beyond some references to recently-published works on the subject, materially altered. In the Majolica Section, I am much indebted to Dr. C. E. Drury Fortnum, F.S.A., whose latest work, entitled " Majolica," has been published while this present edition of Chaffers's work has been going through the press. The notes and emendations adopted are chiefly his, with the addition of references to examples in the important Collection of Mr. George Salting, which has been to a great extent formed since Mr. Chaffers wrote on the subject. This Collection has been enriched by some remarkable specimens from the Spitzer Collection. In the notices on various Faiences there will be found some notes on the " Rhodian " omitted in previous editions : in some references to French Renaissance ceramics it will be seen that I have adopted M. Bonaffe's new title of "Saint Porchaire " for that celebrated ware, which was formerly called " Henri Deux." There is also a list of the specimens which have been discovered since the last edition of "Chaffers" was published, and I have traced the vicissitudes of several pieces which have changed hands during the last decade. For information on this subject thanks are due to Mr. George Salting, Mr. Murray Marks (of Messrs. Durlacher Brothers), and M. Mannheim of Paris. In the notices of Continental Faiences, chiefly French and Dutch, new notices have been added, some marks hitherto classed as uncertain or unknown have been identified, and more than two hundred additional marks given ; the majority of these have been taken from Herr Jannike's Grundriss der Keramik ; others have been traced from specimens in public and private collections. Instead of the two notices of Swiss Faience being included with those of Germany, they have been, together with some new notes on other Swiss Fabriqites, formed into a small Switzerland Section, the information for this purpose being very kindly supplied by Herr Angst, H.B.M. Consul at Zurich, who has made Swiss ceramics his especial study. In that portion of the work which deals with Chinese and Japanese Pottery, my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur E. Underwood, whose knowledge of Eastern languages has enabled me to correct characters improperly placed, and to give explanations and translations of peculiar methods and marks of Chinese potters and artists. There are also additional marks, taken, with consent, from Sir A. Wollaston Franks's Catalogue of his Oriental Collection. In that important section of "Chaffers" in which he deals with the Continental porcelain factories. Sir A. Wollaston Franks has been kind enough to help me to trace many of the specimens referred to in previous editions ; as in the Staniforth Collection, many of which are now included in the useful Collection for reference which Sir A. Wollaston Franks has presented to the nation, which may now be seen in the Bethnal Green Museum. Some seventy or eighty additional painters' marks will be found in the notices on the Sevres manufactory. Some of them are given on M. Edward Garnier's authority, but those denoting the later period of Sevres, namely, that is, subsequent to the year 1800, are taken from Herr Jannike's work referred to previously: the marks have, however, been re-drawn, so as to be clearer and more distinct, and to accord with the scale of those in the previous editions of " Chaffers." For additional information as to some of the notable services of Sevres porcelain I am indebted to Mr. Leonard Collmann for permission to examine the inventories of her Majesty's Collection at Windsor Castle. In the English Section the additional references are chiefly obtained from the writings of Professor Church, F.R.S., F.S.A., of M. Solon, and with regard to specimens of early slip decoration, from the illustrated volume by Mr. E. Hodgkin, F.S.A., and his daughter. The older authorities, such as the works of Mr. Owen on Bristol, Mr. John Haslem's books on Derby porcelain, and Mr. R. W. Binns, F.S.A., on Worcester, have been carefully read ; and as the latter eminent and practical authority is still living, I have had the advantage of seeing him and learning his views on some points of discrepancy between previous writer