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In August 1769, Bentley proceeded to London, where 

 he remained for a time at the warehouse in Newport 

 Street, and afterwards to the dwelling at Chelsea, which 

 had been taken for his Accommodation. Wedgwood 

 had already an establishment at Chelsea where he 

 manufactured some of his ornamental wares. The 

 place was more convenient for his London artists and 

 enamellers. Bentley's house was situated in Little 

 Cheyne Row, within about a stone's throw of the manu- 

 factory. 



The demand for Wedgwood's vases still continued 

 more brisk even than before. It broke out ' in 

 Dublin as well as in London. In one of his letters to 

 Bentley, Wedgwood said : " Sir William Chambers, the 

 architect, would not stop to tell me the difference 

 between urns and vases, as he was going to wait upon 

 the Queen, and he was so obliging as to take a piece of 

 my ware with him, a covered dish enamelled after his 

 own drawing." 



With respect to his drawing-book of vases, to be 

 inspected at the London showroom by the visitors, 

 Wedgwood said : " I need not tell you that it will be to 

 our interest to amuse, and divert, and please, and 

 astonish, nay, and even ravish the ladies ; but who am 

 I writing to ? not to my wife, I hope. No, she must 

 wink here ; this is all under the rose. It is to my good 

 friend vase-maker general to the universe." Again 

 he says to Bentley : " I have really more business cut 

 out for me than I well know how to execute." 



