, and others with the following
“Hannah Hopkins Born Sep 17 New Style 1752,” occurs on a christening bowl in the Edkins collection.
A fine plate, painted by Bowen, engraved on Fig. [738], is in possession of Mr. Willet, of Brighton, who also possesses a grand tile picture, consisting of seventy-two tiles, painted with Hogarth’s “March to Finchley.” Mr. Fry has two clever tile pictures of nine tiles each, one representing a cat and the other a dog. On the collar of the latter are the words “Bristol, 1752.”
Later on Richard Frank took his son Thomas into partnership, and in 1777 the works were removed to Water Lane, to the manufactory which, in 1775, had been carried on by James Alsop, a brown stoneware potter. The following advertisement, of the year 1777, refers to this change: “Richard Frank & Son, Earthen and Stone Pot Works, are removed from Redcliffe Backs to Water Lane, where they continue the same business in all its branches.”
Fig. 738.
In 1784, Joseph Ring, rectifier and vinegar maker, who had married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Frank (and was father of Sarah, the wife of Frederick Cookworthy,[ ] nephew of William Cookworthy), purchased the business of Frank and Son for £669 1s. 3½d. Mr. Owen prints the following extracts from the valuation for this sale. It shows that Richard Frank and Son were general dealers in all kinds of ware, as well as Delft and stone ware makers. The inventory is headed, “The Stock & Utensils in Trade At the Pot House in Water Lane, Bristol, as Appraised as following.” The following are some of the items; the whole of the plant being valued at only ten pounds:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
| “Black Ware | 27 | 6 | 2½ |
| Red China Ware | 3 | 16 | 2 |
| Tortoishell Ware | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| Blue and White Sprig’d Ware | 14 | 15 | 6 |
| Blue and White Stone Staffordshire Ware | 2 | 18 | 9½ |
| Dutch Ware, 18 Jugs, one to ye Warp | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| Delph Ware | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 21 Doz. and ½ Copperplate tiles | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Best Nottingham Ware | 25 | 16 | 8½ |
| Blue China Glaz’d Ware | 11 | 3 | 2½ |
| Enamelled China Glaze Ware | 14 | 8 | 11½ |
| Common Enamelled Ware | 3 | 13 | 3 |
| Copperplate Ware | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Cream Colour Ware | 90 | 13 | 4½ |
| White Stone Ware | 52 | 0 | 9 |
| Brown Stone Ware | 159 | 16 | 11½ |
| Materials, 27 tons Clay, 2/6 | 29 | 0 | 6 |
| 80 bags Sand, 1/2 | 4 | 13 | 4 |
| 11 Cut Salt, 5/6 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Tools, 324 Pot Boards, 3 Benches, 1 Pounding Trough, 1 Mixing Trough, 1 Clay Chest, 3 Compleat Wheel and Wheel Frames, with Working Benches, &c., Moulds and Drums for making Slugs, Kiln Ladder, Salting Boxes, Lignum Vitæ blocks and Hand Mill | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Old Iron Pot, in the Yard | 0 | 4 | 6 |