Small Chaffers Liverpool 'Jumping Boy' Pattern Plate, C.1760

Ref: W734

Small Chaffers Liverpool 'Jumping Boy' pattern plate, c.1760, decorated in blue with a central lobed roundel containing a small boy leaping into the air with his arms outstretched beside an elegant lady in flowing robes holding a floral sprig in her hand and sitting upon rockwork underneath a blossoming bough, the rim with an undulating blue band.

Dimensions:

Diameter: 12 cm. (4 3/4 in.)

Notes:

An advertisement in Williamson’s Liverpool Advertiser in December 1756 dates Richard Chaffers & Co. as the second oldest producer of porcelain in the Liverpool area, after William Reid. The manufactory, located at Shaw’s Brow, began producing a porcelain with bone-ash body in around 1755. Later, production shifted to a porcelain made with steatite (soapstone) quarried from the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, where Richard Chaffers had a licence to mine from 1756. This new type of porcelain, which resembled Worcester, was able to withstand boiling water – an obvious advantage in the production of tea and coffee wares.