Service · S050
Blue wreath
Service · S002
Blue/white
A placeholder for all blue and white pieces
Service · S045
Brice
Edward Brice was one of Richard Champion's original partners, and this service remained with his family until 1882
Service · S003
Butts
A very fine service named for Thomas Butts who bought it at the Christies auction in 1780, painted in pink and gilt with wheat ears, lopped ribbons and bands, gilt dentil rims.
Service · S004
Cabaret
A rare Bristol cabaret set, painted in coloured enamels with scattered flowers, within a pink scale border, with green ‘C’ scrolls and flower heads, suspending garlands of flowers and leaves
Service · S042
Champion
Three plates and two cups with the arms of Champion
Service · S005
Chough
The Chough Service, painted with a bird crest for which it is named, with leaves in its beak, probably for Tothill of Peamore, Devon, within oval cartouches, and with sepia profile medallions, united by laurel swags, within gilt tooled, leaf and dentil bands
Service · S007
Classical portraits
A fine Bristol service painted with classical heads within berried green wreaths and borders of gilt foliage and berried green garlands, gilt dentil rims.
Service · S009
Cottage Bristol
This group is a placeholder for Cottage Bristol pieces that aren't one of the most common Cottage Bristol motifs. There are three other Cottage Bristol groupings
Service · S056
Cottage Bristol - mixed bouquet around a large rose
These should not be considered alongside other Cottage Bristol that was produced quickly in the final run-off years of the Bristol factory. These pieces all feature an underglaze cross swords mark overpainted with a blue cross so were likely produced in 1773/4 around the handover from Cookworthy to Champion, not in the late 1770s. The quality of the decoration is far superior to that produced in the late 1770s, and finally the handles on these cups are all ear-shaped rahter than plain loop.
Service · S055
Cottage Bristol - paired auriculas with yellow rose
Service · S033
Cottage Bristol - rose, carnation and harebells
Service · S054
Cottage Bristol - Turk's cap lilies
A cottage Bristol style with two prominent Turk's cap lilies above a pink rose and purple auricula
Service · S006
Double ribbon
A fine Bristol service, painted in the Sevres manner with coloured enamels featuring a flower spray and scattered flowers, the puce and blue interlocked border with gilt flower head medallions, and suspending swags of flowers and leaves, gilt dentil rim.
Service · S061
Dragons in compartments
Service · S008
Figure
A placeholder for all figures
Service · S011
Fry
A fine Bristol service probably made for Joseph Fry, Quaker friend and financial backer of Champion, painted in delicate pale "dry blue" enamel by William Stephens with flower sprays and scattered flowers, gilt dentil borders.
Service · S012
Gilt dentil rim free sprays
A Bristol service painted in enamels with colourful floral sprays and gilt dentil rims.
Service · S013
Gilt loop garland
A Bristol service painted in enamels with colourful floral garlands suspended from gilt loops hanging on a gilt dentil rim.
Service · S063
Gilt scrolls under angular gilt rim
Service · S014
Gold line garland
A Bristol service painted in enamels with colourful floral garlands suspended from a gilt line, all surrounded by a gilt dentil rim.
Service · S015
Gold stripes
A Bristol service painted in coloured enamels with a spray of flowers and leaves, and scattered flowers, on a gilt striped ground, the rim with a gilt flower head and 'C' scroll band.
Service · S016
Green loop
A Bristol service painted with a garland of flowers and foliage suspended from green loops under an iron red rim line.
Service · S017
Green monochrome
A mix of services painted in enamels with green or green and black garlands
Service · S058
Green Monochrome - gilt dentil rim
Service · S057
Green Monochrome - green loops
Service · S059
Green Monochrome - green loops red rim line
Service · S018
Green roundels
A Bristol service with monochrome green garlands suspended from green roundels.
Service · S048
Green scroll band
Service · S052
High numbers
A group of pieces with high decorator numbers, a distinct style of floral decoration and red chain or looping bands. Not all are numbered. These pieces seem likely to date from late 1777 or the first half of 1778 when the Bristol factory workforce peaked before being cut very dramatically in August 1778
Service · S019
Horace Walpole
A fine fluted Bristol service made for Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole and builder of Strawberry Hill, painted in enamels with green floral garlands suspended from gilt loops hanging from a heavy gilt dentil rim.
Service · S053
In the white
Service · S020
Initials and Armorial
A placeholder for a variety of pieces with Champion's clients' arms or initials.
Service · S064
Kakiemon chrysanthemums
Service · S021
Laurel bands
A very fine set of Bristol cabinet cups painted in green and puce with bands of leaves, within gilt line and interlinked roundel bands, all around a central roundel and beneath gilt dentil rims.
Service · S022
Laurel swag
A fine Bristol service painted in green and iron red with laurel garlands, suspended from a gilt band, beneath laurel and gilt dentil borders.
Service · S023
Leafy gilt
A fine Bristol service painted in colourful enamels with floral sprays and scattered sprigs, an elaborate leafy gilt scrolled border below the gilt dentil rim.
Service · S024
Leinster
A fine Bristol named service decorated in coloured flower heads with the intial L beneath a gilt ducal coronet, within oval gilt panels, the cup with two grisaille head and shoulder studies of young men, united by green and iron red laurel swags, gilt line, leaf scroll and dentil borders
Service · S025
Ludlow
A placeholder for pieces in Ludlow service style, as well as Ludlow named service pieces, all painted in coloured enamels with flower sprays, within puce scale borders, with green (or red) and gilt cartouches of leaves and pendant flowers.
Service · S026
Mark Harford
A very fine named Bristol service painted in purple monochrome with classical buildings in harbour scenes, within three roundels, beneath green leaf, purple scroll and gilt borders.
Service · S046
Mons. Soqui
A variety of names are recorded for Michel Soquet but Mons. Soqui has stuck. He painted at Sevres before joining Cookworthy at the Plymouth factory. He is known for his exotic birds.
Service · S027
Nelson
A fine named Bristol service painted in coloured enamels with scattered flowers and leaves, within scrolling blue ribbons, entwined with three gilt bands, gilt dentil rims.
Service · S028
Oriental
A placeholder for a range of oriental pieces that aren't part of more specific sets like Dragons in Compartments or Kakiemon Flowers
Service · S044
Part of a cabaret
This is a work in progress
Service · S030
Pink bands
A fine set of Bristol cabinet cups and saucers painted in pink with scale bands, within green laurel borders, gilt dentil rims.
Service · S031
Pink chain
A Bristol service painted with scattered flowers, under a pink chain band suspending flowers and leaves, orange angular dentil rim line.
Service · S051
Pink rosettes gilt scrolls
Service · S032
Pitt
A Bristol named service, produced for Lord Camelford, painted with the Pitt armorial, within a shield shaped cartouche, and orange and gilt entwined bands, gilt dentil rims, The same colours are used without the Pitt armorial and are included here.
Service · S047
Plaques
A grouping for the famous Bristol plaques as well as various biscuit pieces
Service · S035
Plumer
A fine Bristol named service with initial P in pink roses and gilt, within a tooled oval gilt panel, and with grisaille portrait medallions, within green, iron red and gilt laurel and leaf scroll borders, gilt dentil rims.
Service · S060
Printed
Service · S037
Puce monochrome
A fine Bristol service painted with monochrome puce scroll band with scattered flowers under gilt dentil rim. Also a placeholder for other puce monochrome pieces
Service · S038
Puce/blue band
A very fine Bristol service painted in coloured enamels with flowers and leaves, within scrolling gilt leaf and green and turquoise laurel bands, with oval laurel garlands, and with a pale blue, puce and gilt interlined band, gilt dentil rims
Service · S039
Purple bow
A Bristol service painted in coloured enamels with garlands of flowers and leaves, suspended from purple bows and hanging from a gilt line, and with central flower spray, all surrounded by gilt dentil rim.
Service · S043
Sin bin
A group for replacements, fakes, poorly executed pieces, pieces on their last legs and other oddities
Service · S040
Smith
A fine Bristol named service painted in enamels with green laurel garlands suspended from gilt roundels mounted on a thick gilt band, surrounding a ring of light gilt fronds in turn surrounding a central gilt-framed panel, adorned with laurel garlands and pink ribbons and containing both the arms of Smith in black, red and gilt and the initials SS (Sarah Smith) in tiny pink and gilt flowers, all surrounded by a gilt dentil rim.
Service · S034
Thick gold line
A Bristol service painted in enamels with scattered sprays and inside a thick gilt band below gilt dentil rim.
Service · S062
Underglaze blue with iron red enamel
Service · S041
William Cowles
A fine Bristol named service finely painted in coloured enamels with a bold spray of flowers and leaves, and scattered flowers, and with conjoined initials in gilt ‘WC’, within a laurel roundel, gilt dentil rims.
