[CHINA MARKS.]
ENGLISH PORCELAIN.
PART II.
The Swansea Works.
The introduction of porcelain manufacture into the earthenware factory of Swansea was due to Messrs. Hains & Co. towards the close of the last century; but it was of an inferior kind. In 1802 Mr. Dillwyn purchased the works, and in 1814 they had arrived at great perfection under the management of Billingsley. The former retired in 1813 and was succeeded by his son. The next year the porcelain manufacture was revived and carried on for about seven years very successfully; Baxter, an accomplished figure painter, having entered the service of Mr. Dillwyn, junior, and continuing with him for three years, but returning to the Worcester works in 1819.
Dillwyn's china seems to have been, as a rule, distinguished by the impressed or stencilled name (in red) "Swansea," also the tridents, as illustrated.
The factory was closed about the year 1820, John Rose of Coalport having purchased the plant and removed it to his own works.