Below is a list of references and links I have used to learn about Bristol. Some are available on this site. Others you will have to buy. To access ECC papers you will have to become a member.
| Title | Author | Year | Type | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Considerations on the Present Situation of Great Britain and the United States of North America | Richard Champion | 1784 | Paper | Read |
Memoir of William Cookworthy | George Harrison | 1854 | Book | Read |
A History of Pottery and Porcelain | Joseph Marryat | 1857 | Book | Read |
A History of Porcelain | Joseph Marryat | 1857 | Book | Read |
Plymouth China and Bristol China by Lewellyn Jewitt Art Journal | Llewellyn Jewitt | 1863 | Article | Read |
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds 1868 | — | 1868 | Catalogue | Read |
A Short Description of the English and Continental Porcelain Exhibited June 1873 | Burlington Fine Arts Club | 1873 | Catalogue | Read |
Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol | Hugh Owen | 1873 | Book | Read |
William Edkins 1874 Auction Catalogue | Sotheby's | 1874 | Catalogue | Read |
The Ceramic Art of Great Britain | Llewellyn Jewitt | 1878 | Book | Read |
Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain | J. E. Nightingale | 1881 | Book | Read |
On Old Plymouth China Journal of the British Archaeological Association | W. H. Cope | 1883 | Paper | Read |
A Brief Memoir of Francis Fry | Theodore Fry | 1887 | Book | Read |
Francis Fry Auction Catalogue | Sotheby's | 1889 | Catalogue | Read |
William Edkins 1891 Auction Catalogue | Sotheby's | 1891 | Catalogue | Read |
Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century | John Latimer | 1893 | Book | Read |
English Porcelain | A. H. Church | 1894 | Book | Read |
William Cookworthy | Theodore Compton | 1895 | Book | Read |
History and Description of English Porcelain | William Burton | 1902 | Book | Read |
Bristol Biscuit Plaques The Connoisseur | Philip Nelson | 1903 | Paper | Read |
Bristol China The Queen | — | 1904 | Article | Read |
Plymouth Porcelain The Queen | — | 1904 | Article | Read |
Catalogue of the British Museum Collection | RL Hobson | 1905 | Catalogue | Read |
Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain The Queen | — | 1905 | Article | Read |
Cradle of English Porcelains The Queen | — | 1905 | Article | Read |
Porcelain - A Sketch of its Nature, Art and Manufacture | William Burton | 1906 | Book | Read |
William Cookworthy and Plymouth Porcelain The Queen | — | 1906 | Article | Read |
Mr Butts the Patron and Friend of Blake | Ada Briggs | 1907 | Article | Read |
Champion's Bristol Porcelain The Academy | — | 1907 | Article | Read |
The Fry Collection of Bristol Porcelain The Connoisseur | Mrs Willoughby Hodgson | 1909 | Article | Read |
Old Bristol China Bristol Times and Mirror | — | 1909 | Article | Read |
Old Bristol Pottery & Porcelain Marks | J. P. Way | 1910 | Book | Read |
The Alfred Trapnell Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain | Albert Amor | 1912 | Book | Read |
The Alfred Trapnell Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain - Deluxe Edition Plates | Rev. A .W. Oxford | 1912 | Book | — |
Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol bound with 185 extra illustrations | Priscilla A. Fry | 1912 | Book | — |
Plymouth China Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Assocation | Mrs G. H. Radford | 1912 | Article | Read |
Old English China | Mrs Willoughby Hodgson | 1913 | Book | Read |
Some Famous Pieces of Old Bristol The Queen | — | 1913 | Article | Read |
Contributions to the study of English Porcelain - Evans of Sevres and a Bristol Imitator by Bernard Rackham Burlington Magazine | Burlington Magazine vol XXV | 1914 | Article | Read |
China Seen in Bath The Queen | — | 1914 | Article | Read |
Old Bristol Porcelain The Queen | — | 1914 | Article | Read |
Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection | Bernard Rackham | 1915 | Catalogue | Read |
Illustrations of Ceramic Art (Privately published) | Priscilla A. Fry | 1915 | Book | Read |
Old Bristol Potteries | William Pountney | 1920 | Book | Read |
A General History of Porcelain vol I | William Burton | 1921 | Book | Read |
A General History of Porcelain vol I | William Burton | 1921 | Book | Read |
Herbert Allen Collection | Bernard Rackham | 1923 | Catalogue | Read |
English Porcelain Figures of the 18th Century | William King | 1925 | Book | Read |
Pottery Age in Europe The Queen | — | 1925 | Article | Read |
Bristol Hard-Paste Porcelain by Charles Hyde-Jocelin International Studio | International Studio | 1928 | Article | Read |
Bristol Porcelain | Frank Hurlbutt | 1928 | Book | Read |
Bristol Biscuit Plaques ECC | Wallace Elliott | 1932 | Paper | Read |
A Bristol Plaque with the Arms of Champion ECC | Editor ECC Transactions | 1934 | Paper | Read |
The American Correspondence of a Bristol Merchant The Letters of Richard Champion University of California Press | G. H. Guttridge | 1934 | Paper | Read |
Wallace Elliot auction catalogue | Sotheby's | 1938 | Catalogue | Read |
Porcelain Classical and Sentimental Country Life | Bernard Rackham | 1942 | Article | Read |
Frank Hurlbutt Conoisseur and Author | F. Severne Mackenna | 1943 | Article | Read |
F. Severne Mackenna Auction Catalogue | Sotheby's | 1944 | Catalogue | Read |
Some Finely Decorated Specimens of Bristol Porcelain Apollo | F. Severne Mackenna | 1944 | Article | Read |
The artistic content of Cookworthy's and Champion's porcelain ECC | F. Severne Mackenna | 1946 | Paper | Read |
Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain | F. Severne Mackenna | 1946 | Book | Read |
Champion's Bristol Porcelain | F. Severne Mackenna | 1947 | Book | Read |
Nightingale's Contributions | F. Severne Mackenna | 1948 | Article | Read |
The English Ceramic Circle 1927-1948. English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative Catalogue | ECC | 1948 | Catalogue | Read |
Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain | G. Bernard Hughes | 1951 | Article | Read |
Lady Charlotte Schreiber ECC | O. van Oss | 1957 | Paper | Read |
Notes on the Cookworthy and Champion families ECC | Aubrey J. Toppin | 1957 | Paper | Read |
William Stephens, Bristol China Painter ECC | F. Severne Mackenna | 1957 | Paper | Read |
Burke's Bristol Friends Bristol Branch of the Historical Association | P. T. Underdown | 1958 | Paper | Read |
Bristol and Burke | P. T. Underdown | 1961 | Paper | — |
The bust of George II ECC | Dudley Delevigne | 1963 | Paper | — |
Frank Arnold auction catalogue | Sotheby's | 1964 | Catalogue | Read |
Two Centuries of China Selling ECC | Bevis Hillier | 1966 | Paper | — |
Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970 | John K.D. Cooper, City Art Gallery, Bristol | 1970 | Catalogue | Read |
A Problematical Group of Eighteenth Century Porcelains ECC | R. J. Charleston and J. V. G. Mallet | 1970 | Paper | — |
Cookworthy's Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain | Alex A. Cumming | 1971 | Article | — |
William Cookworthy | John Penderill-Church | 1972 | Book | — |
Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain A Loan Collection | Simon Spero | 1973 | Catalogue | Read |
Strawberry Hill Revisited Country Life | J. Mordaunt Crook | 1973 | Article | — |
Blue & White English Porcelain of the 18th Century | Bernard Watney | 1973 | Book | — |
Cookworthy's first Bristol factory of 1765 ECC | J. V. G. Mallet | 1974 | Paper | — |
The Merchant Venturers of Bristol | Patrick McGrath | 1975 | Book | — |
The FS Mackenna Collection of English Porcelain vol 3 Plymouth & Bristol | F. Severne Mackenna | 1975 | Catalogue | — |
The Frank Arnold Collection Antique Collecting | Simon Spero | 1977 | Article | — |
The Peter Stephens Collection of Pymouth & Bristol Porcelain | Albert Amor | 1978 | Catalogue | Read |
Cookworthy 'a man of no common clay' | A. Douglas Selleck | 1978 | Book | — |
Ceramics in Bristol:The Fine Wares 1670-1970 | City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery | 1979 | Catalogue | Read |
The Plymouth Porcelain Factory: Letters to Thomas Pitt 1766-69 Part 1 Apollo | Geoffrey Willis | 1980 | Paper | — |
William Cookworthy and the Plymouth Factory an Updating ECC | F. Severne Mackenna | 1980 | Paper | — |
The Plymouth Porcelain Factory: Letters to Thomas Pitt 1766-69 Part 2 Apollo | Geoffrey Willis | 1981 | Paper | — |
Richard Champion and the Society of Friends Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeological Society | Deboarah M. Olsen | 1984 | Paper | — |
Sevres Porcelain Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Carl Christian Dauterman | 1986 | Paper | — |
William Cookworthy's Plymouth Porcelain 1768-1770 Plymouth Athenaeum | Miss C. Hampshire | 1988 | Paper | — |
A Tale of Two Cities Some English Hard-Paste Rococo Figures ECC | Roger Massey | 1994 | Paper | — |
Mr. Tebo vs. John Toulouse ECC | Bella Kleinman | 1994 | Paper | — |
English Porcelain and Colonial America ECC | Terence Lockett | 1996 | Paper | — |
A curious odyssey: A Vauxhall workman and some dated pieces ECC | Roger Massey | 1997 | Paper | — |
18th Century Porcelain from Renowned Collections | Albert Amor | 2000 | Catalogue | Read |
The location of the Plymouth Factory Part I ECC | Colin Hanley | 2000 | Paper | — |
The size and scale of 18th century English porcelain factories ECC | Roger Massey | 2000 | Paper | — |
The Diary of Sarah Fox (nee Champion), Bristol 1745-1802 Bristol Record Society | Madge Dresser | 2003 | Paper | — |
Independent China Painters in 18th Century London ECC | Roger Massey | 2004 | Paper | — |
What we do not know about 18th Century English Porcelain | Simon Spero | 2005 | Paper | — |
Richard Champion of Bristol, Merchant and Porcelain Manufacturer ECC | Rodney Dowling | 2008 | Paper | — |
Mr Ball the English Potter and the American China Manufactory ECC | Nicholas Panes | 2009 | Paper | — |
English Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century | Nicholas Panes | 2009 | Book | Buy |
English Potter American Patriot | Nicholas Panes | 2016 | Book | Buy |
East to West: A Passion for Porcelain | Albert Amor | 2017 | Catalogue | Read |
Two Intriguing Sauceboats LCC | C. John Robson | 2020 | Paper | — |
William Cookworthy LCC | C. John Robson | 2020 | Paper | — |
The Vanessa Stevenson Collection | Albert Amor | 2021 | Catalogue | Read |
The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part I) | Albert Amor | 2023 | Catalogue | Read |
The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part II) | Albert Amor | 2024 | Catalogue | Read |
Henry Bone RA, The King's Enameller | Nicholas Panes | 2025 | Book | Buy |