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A short statement about William Billingsley and his ambitious idea to create the world’s finest porcelain to match his exquisite ceramics decoration: a venture in which he was shown to have been successful but which made him financially impoverished, his family predeceasing him and leaving him a pauper. In this brief summary, the only known picture of Billingsley shows him as a lean ascetic figure probably around 1795 at the height of his ascendancy at Derby and with his ambition still to be realised at Swansea and Nantgarw.
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Edwards, H.G.M. (2017). William Billingsley—An Epilogue. In: Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48713-7_21
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