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Worcester porcelain
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The British porcelain with the longest history of production, continuous from 1751 until the present day. The early wares were mainly white, decorated in underglaze blue with the fashionable Chinese motifs of the time. In the late 1750s the factory pioneered transfer-printing from engravings, most often from prints by Robert Hancock (1731-1817). The image of Britain's ally *Frederick the Great was particularly popular (partly because of the crippling effect of his military campaigns on the output of porcelain from *Meissen). The company has been known as Royal Worcester since 1862. Close to the factory is the Worcester Porcelain Museum, formed in 1946 as the Dyson Perrins Museum, with a very full collection including the 'Wigornia' creamboat – believed to be the very first Worcester design, produced in 1751.
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