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The relevance of documentary porcelain, including that made for specific purpose such as a matrimonial celebration or that which has been specifically commissioned from a particular artist, is especially important for provenancing and for the identification of an artists’ work elsewhere. Correlation with recorded attributions from other factories is not only helpful but necessary as artists moved around between factories. The case of William Billingsley being a classic example of this, and examples of his definitive work on Derby, Pinxton and other factories provides a useful means of determining his work on Swansea and Nantgarw.
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Edwards, H.G.M. (2017). Documentary Porcelain and Historical Provenancing. In: Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48713-7_9
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