Download or read book Derby Porcelain: The Golden Years, 1780 Ð 1830 written by Howell Edwards and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new addition to the Penrose Antiques Ltd short guides containing 25 colour figures gives a brief history of the Derby works from the establishment of a ceramics manufactury in 1748 by Prince de Conde (Louis-Henri de Bourbon) and a French national Andrew Planche from Chantilly through to the present day. The book also defines what can be considered as the golden period of porcelain manufacture in Derby between 1780 and 1830 highlighting the decorators and the influence of patronage in the development of porcelain Manufacture in Derby as evidenced by the Derby Pattern books and the production of the so called named Derby services.