Dublin.
Donovan.—Whether Mr. Donovan, of Poolbeg Street, on the Quay, Dublin, was a manufacturer or not is uncertain, but I believe not. He purchased both English and Continental wares in the white and decorated them in his own place. He amassed a large fortune and purchased estates in Sussex. In his business he was usually known in Dublin as “The Emperor of China.” “About 1790 he had a glass manufactory at Ringsend, near Dublin, and he employed a painter to decorate pottery, and placed all sorts of fancy and imitation marks on china and earthenware.” His name sometimes occurs as DONOVAN only, and at others as
Donovan
Dublin
or
DONOVAN
DUBLIN.
Dublin.
Fig. 722.
A mark on Delft ware which has come under my notice is a crowned harp with the word Dublin. It is quite uncertain to whose make this is to be ascribed.
Two or three brownware manufactories also existed during last century at Dublin, and produced all the usual commoner kinds of coarse domestic vessels.