Miles Mason
Miles Mason (1752–1822) was a chinaman in Fenchurch Street who sold imported porcelain from China. When these imports ceased, he developed a successful replacement – ironstone china – which was then exported to other countries.[1][2][3]
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Notes
Citations
- ^ Roberts & Godden 1996, p. foreword.
- ^ Coutts 2001, p. 153.
- ^ Nichols 1822.
Sources
- Roberts, Gaye; Godden, Geoffrey (1996), Mason's, The First Two Hundred Years, Merrell Holberton
- Coutts, Howard (2001), "Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Britain", The Art of Ceramics: European Ceramic Design, 1500-1830, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300083873
- Nichols, John (1822), "Mr. Miles Mason", The Gentleman's Magazine, 131: 474–475
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