THREE PANELS FROM LOWESTOFT POWDER-BLUE OCTAGONAL DISH.
(Marked with imitation Chinese mark in blue.)
LOWESTOFT SAUCE-BOATS (BLUE and WHITE).
(With fragment of Mould from which they were made.)
VI
THE LOWESTOFT FACTORY
We have dealt with Worcester and with Derby, with Chelsea and with Bow. Of the latter, we told of the difficulty of determining the marks, and of accurately naming the china; but what are we to think of a factory, which we may term the “Mrs. Harris” among china factories, inasmuch as some people with no less scepticism than Sairey Gamp’s friend, believe it did not exist at all. The legends of Lowestoft are many and varied, but we think we shall succeed in presenting some sort of rational account of the factory to our readers, which may dispel many notions, perhaps wrongly, held by those to whom “Lowestoft” is a myth and the collecting of it a snare and a delusion.