Chamberlian /Chamberen /

In 1783, Robert Chamberlain (c. 1736-98) , the head of the decorating department of Dr. John Wall in Wermstr-House, left the company to start his own business to decorate porcelain on King Street, Woster.First, he bought pure porcelain without jewelry in other factories, such as Cowli in Schropshire, but by the end of the 1780s he made his own products at the new factory to Severn Street, Dielis.The Chamberlain factory quickly won an enviable reputation thanks to the production of finely painted porcelain.Admiral Lord Nelson and his mistress Lady Hamilton visited the Chamberlain factory in August 1802 and ordered an extravagant breakfast service, dinner and dessert in the style of ‘exquisite old Japan’.Only the breakfast service was completed before the hero’s death under the traffic in 1805.Lady Hamilton bought a service in 1806 for 120 pounds, 10 shillings and 6 pence.

The surviving factory records tell us about rich customers who spent huge amounts of money on porcelain.

The manufacture of large services with a carefully thought -out decor can take several years.Everything was done manually, and each product could be burned in the stove up to ten times, and each firing took several days and each time put the product with risk.The prince-regent issued his royal order in 1807, and in 1811 a large book of designs was created for him to choose a dessert service.He could not choose any one pattern and ordered that each thing in his service be decorated in different ways.It is believed that Chamberlain developed a special type of porcelain known as the "regent case", for this very important service.