| Book Review |
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Coalport 1795-1926 |
An Introduction to the History and Porcelains of John Rose and Company |
By Michael Messenger |
| Antique Collectors' Club, Market Street Industrial Park, Wappingers' Falls, N.Y., 12590, 1996, pp 444, $89.50, hardcover. |
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| This first book on Coalport in more than 20 years is a comprehensive survey examining the firm's relationship to its wares. New information and patterns are featured, along with later numbered porcelains and a close look at the heretofore neglected 1850 to 1920 period. A text of Coalport's history, from William Reynolds and the Industrial Revolution in East Shropshire to its transfer into Cauldron hands in 1926, is punctuated with four hundred photographs of important creations. Appendices include a chronolgy of Coalport owners and partners; painters, gilders and other workers employed at the firm; a "tree" of the Stephans/Strephons in Shropshire; and marks used from 1796 to 1926 and later.
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