Abstract
Some 53 Nantgarw porcelain services have been categorised as “named” services, wherein either their original provenance or later possession by a purchaser or inheritor is known. A detailed analysis reveals that half of these have been decorated in London ateliers through the agency of John Mortlock of Oxford Street and the rest locally at the Nantgarw China Works by William Billingsley, Thomas Pardoe and William Weston Young. Few ceramic artists in the London ateliers of Robins & Randall and John Sims have been identified. Some criteria for identifying a London sourced decoration on Nantgarw porcelain are advanced.
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Edwards, H.G.M. (2023). The Manufacture and Decoration of Nantgarw Porcelain. In: The Farnley Hall Service: A Unique Survivor in Nantgarw Porcelain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21816-3_2
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