
Anna Burnside
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Gaye Blake Roberts illustrates this curious bowl in her paper 'Wirksworth - The Elusive Manufactory', Derby Porcelain International Society Journal 6 (2009), p.33 where a tentative attribution to Wirksworth is given. Two bowls of similar shape are impressed 'SALOPIAN' but the profile of the underside is different to the present lot, which is unmarked. It is possible that Thomas Turner, the manager at Caughley, purchased the moulds at the closure of the Wirksworth venture in 1777. Turner praises the products made at Wirksworth in a letter of 1778.
Many versions of 'Princes Feathers' pattern were made at Caughley, but Flight examples are rarely found. These may have formed part of a royal service ordered for the Prince of Wales.