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Bow porcelain
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Wares made from the late 1740s at Stratford, on the other bank of the River Lea from Bow in what is now east London. A patent for porcelain had been taken out in 1744 by the founders of the factory, Edward Heylyn and Thomas Frye, but no surviving pieces of Bow have been dated earlier than 1750. The factory made a speciality of blue and white tableware in the Chinese style, and of figures of actors and actresses in favourite roles. But for the most part it followed continental models, though in a less sophisticated manner than *Chelsea. The factory closed in 1776; it is often said to have been bought and shut down by William Duesbury of the *Derby factory, but there is no documentary evidence of this.
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