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House ^ Garden 
You Can Have 
Protection 
With Beauty 
'‘Cupid Sleeping”, a group of 
figures in the old Derby bisque which 
stimulated the makers of our old 
Parian ware 
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able — to use them. 
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surface and little or no sheen, crisp in 
detail), such as the pieces produced in the 
period from 1790 to 1810 , that inspired 
Copeland’s experiments. 
Copeland produced his first Parian 
pieces in 1842 , and it has been called 
epoch-making in the history of the Staf¬ 
fordshire potters’ art. Parian ware imme¬ 
diately became popular, not only in 
England, but on the continent and in 
America as well. Copeland’s figurines, 
groups, busts, and other Parian pieces 
were beautifully modeled. Some of his 
best productions were his series of The 
Seasons, “Lady Godiva”, “Young Eng¬ 
land’’, “Inoand Bacchus”, “Night” and 
“Morning”, “The Return from the 
Vintage”, “Paul and Virginia”, pieces 
designed and modeled by such artists as 
Gibson, Wyatt, Foley and Marshall. 
The sculptor Gibson considered Parian 
“decidedly the best material next to 
marble”. Copeland’s jugs, pitchers. 
vases, etc., were also of high order for the 
most part. 
It is interesting to note that but three 
years after Parian ware made its first 
appearance in England, it was success¬ 
fully produced in America at Fenton’s 
pottery in Bennington, Vermont. The 
mark on these early Bennington pieces of 
Parian was a rectangular frame within 
which were impressed the words “Fen¬ 
ton’s Works, Bennington, Vermont”. 
Christopher Weber Fenton’s initiative in 
introducing Parian into the United States 
was soon followed by the popularity of the 
Bennington wares of this genre. The first 
piece Fenton turned out appears to have 
been one copied from a pitcher made by 
S. Alcock & Co. of Burslem in Stafford¬ 
shire, having figure designs in relief of a 
knight, a lady on horseback and a harper. 
The modeling of the first Bennington 
Parian pieces was done by John Harrison, 
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