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the services of such artists as were available, engaged a 

 Mon. Saqui, or Soqui, from Sevres, who was a man of rare 

 talent as a painter and enameller, and to whose hands, and 

 those of Henry Bone, a native of Plymouth, who was 

 apprenticed to Cookworthy, and afterwards became very 

 celebrated, the best painted specimens may be ascribed. 



The ware made at Plymouth consisted of dinner-services, 

 tea and coffee services, mugs and jugs, vases, trinket and 

 toilet stands, busts, single figures and groups, animals, 

 " Madonnas " and other figures after foreign models, candle- 

 sticks with birds, flowers, &c., &c. The mug here shown, 

 engraved from a specimen in my own collection, is an 

 excellent example of the higher, and, of course, later, pro- 

 ductions of Cookworthy's manufactory, and is, I believe, 

 painted by Saqui. The tea-pot, also from my collection, is 

 beautifully painted with groups of flowers, in pink. 



On the next engraving is shown one of a pair of vases and 

 covers, sixteen inches high, in the possession of Mr. Francis 

 Fry, F.S.A., which is marked with the usual sign in red. 



However beautiful and satisfactory the productions of 

 the Plymouth works might be as china, they were not, it 

 would appear, remunerative commercially. Coal, which 

 was abundant in Staffordshire, and in other localities, was 

 entirely wanting at Plymouth, and the "firing" of the 

 kilns had to be done with wood. The clay and the stone 

 Cookworthy had within easy distance, but coal was wanting; 



