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THE PRINCIPAL FLOOR. 
Rockingham rears occupies Case XXIV., and is represented 
by some very fine examples presented by the late Earl Fitz- 
william. The works were situated at Swinton, near Rotherham, 
in Yorkshire ; and about the year 1820 they produced, under 
Mr. Thomas Brameld, some splendidly-decorated porcelain. The 
pattern plates for a service for King William IV., exhibited in 
this case, may be accepted as typical of the best work. With 
the Rockingham earthenware will be found examples of the 
well-known brown -glazed “ Cadogans,” or tea-pots filled from 
the base. 
A large and illustrative collection of Worcester Porcelain 
occupies tbe range of Cases XXV. to XXX. The manufacture 
of soft paste china was established here by Dr. John Wall, a 
local physician, in the year 1751. Much of the early china was 
composed of a frit body, and in the inferior kinds steatite, or 
soap-stone, was used. The wares of China and Japan were 
freely copied, and even the oriental marks imitated. One of the 
earliest marks was a cursive in blue, an initial suggestive 
alike of the place and of the founder of the works — Worcester 
and Wall. A blue crescent was also commonly employed. The 
collection is rich in marks indicating the successive changes in 
the proprietorship of the works. Attention should be directed 
to the examples of early transfer-printing over the glaze, as 
seen in such pieces as the famous King of Prussia mug, with an 
engraved portrait by Richard Hancock. 
Cases XXXI. and XXXII. are devoted to a collection of the 
pottery and porcelain of Shropshire, commencing with the black 
glazed ware of Jackfield. Of Turner’s blue-printed china, made 
at Caughley, near Broseley, there is a fairly large series, serving 
to show the close resemblance of the Salopian porcelain to some 
-of the Worcester china. Turner’s china is marked either with 
the letter C, the initial S, or the word “ Salopian.” The Coal- 
port or Coalbrook Dale china, made originally by John Rose, is 
illustrated by some beautiful specimens, many of which are 
direct imitations — even to the marks — of the productions of 
Sevres, Dresden, and Chelsea. 
Swansea ivo.re occupies the next Case, No. XXXIII., and 
the collection comprises some fine examples of the so-called 
“ opaque china,” with natural-history subjects painted wdth much 
fidelity by Mr. Young, the draftsman employed by Mr. Lewis 
Weston Dillwyn. There will also be found here some pieces of 
genuine Swansea porcelain. 
In the following Case, No. XXXIV., is a fine collection of 
-the rare l Vantgarw porcelain . made near Cardiff, at a factory 
established by Billingsley and Walker in 1813. The specimens 
serve to illustrate the remarkable translucency of the paste and 
the admirable flower painting in Billingsley’s clever style. The 
lower shelves of Case XXXIV. are occupied by a small collection 
of Lowestoft china. A soft paste was fiist made at Lowestoft as 
far back as 1757, and the manufacture was continued until the 
