BLOOR DERBY BAMBOO PATTERN (Imari Pallet) 6 huge TEA CUPS & SAUCERS c1830 RARE!! (ROYAL CROWN DERBY)

!!!*** EXTREMELY RARE & SCARCE ***!!!

Very Early Hand-painted 

BLOOR DERBY BAMBOO PATTERN

6 LARGE Tea Cups & Saucers = 12 pieces

Made in England

(Imari Pallet) 

C1830

Dimensions:

Cup  = Top Diameter = 91 mm =  Foot Diameter = 53 mm = Length = 117 mm Handle to rim = Height = 81 mm

Saucer = Diameter = 164 mm = Height = 31 mm

 CONDITION:   Overall good condition.  Some gilt wear. Some very fine crazing. Two of the cups (2) have firing flaws only on the inside, not the outside (hairline). Superb overall for items this age!!!  

Sold as seen in the images. Images form part on the description.

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Robert Bloor = 1811

Robert Bloor purchased the business in 1811, including the premises, stock and intellectual property. Bloor apparently could not meet the full purchase price and so entered into a agreement, a mortgage for the balance.

 In 1815, the factory was leased to the firm's salesman and clerk, Robert Bloor, and the Dewsburys played no further part in it. Bloor borrowed heavily to be able to make the payments demanded but proved himself to be a highly able businessman in his ways of recouping losses and putting the business back on a sound financial footing.

 The Bloor period of management coincided with the new bone china body and use of newer heavier oil colours for decoration. These changes together with the adoption of mercury gilding, which replaced the honey gold of the 18th Century, resulted in very richly gilded, flamboyant designs known as 'Japans'. This meant full utilisation of kiln loads.

 In 1828 Bloor succumbed to a mental illness that necessitated his retirement from management of the enterprise. The factory continued under a manager, James Thomason, until 1844 when Thomas Clarke, a relative by marriage (to Bloors only granddaughter), had Bloor declared insane and took control of the business. From 1844 Robert Bloor's daughter and her husband, were responsible for the business and fought to save it, but despite their efforts the factory closed in 1848. For the last twenty years of his life Bloor was in an asylum. During this time the factory was under the control of John Haslem's uncle, James Thomason. The unfortunate Robert Bloor died in March 1846.