RARE PORCELAIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 11

RARE PORCELAIN.

A FAMOUS COLLECTION. Gathered together at a cost of over £15,000, the famous coll eot ion of Bristol porcelain formed by Mr. Alfred Tmpnell, bus just been acquired in its entirety by Mr. Albert Amor, of St Jame»'«-Btreot, London, says the Daily Mail. The 6\ua paid cqrjupt be dvrujged, _ but it Btund? us a record for & collection comprised wholly of the products of one English porcelain faotovy. For over twunty years Mr. Trapnell hue practically controlled the. market so fa« »3 this particular cla* of porcelain is concerned, i*ud though in hio eftrly days ha secured many items for quite trifling SUlpg, of late years he haa made pric« quite » secondary consideration in his e,f forts to fortn «, unique collection of the work of thp larflou? .thpugh short Jived (aeto.ry. He thus got together the largest and most representative colloctkm of Bristol porcqlaiu that has stood in one place sine* the closing of the works ia lifQl, ft colleatiqn evoij item ot vyhioh hae beea purchased, «ot in any haphazard way, but with 9 definite and well-planned obi iect, , . The comparatively briof history of tha faotory-^Sibout thirty years— and. its limited output wh«tr compared with that of Worcester, far instance, makes Bristol pgrcqlain smopg the rarest produpte of the British poster, a' single teapot havipg realised nearly £500 and single cups and saucer* going for sums fttnging from £50 to nearly £200. ' Some indication of the present value of tbo collflotion may be gathered -from the tact that Mr. T/apnell had a catalogueprepared at an expenditure of over £1000 of irhich ouly four copies wore printed, each copy being embellished with nearly eighty original water-colour drawings of the principal pieoos in exact facsimile. It is impossible to enumerate even a tithe of the important pieces contained in the collection, Mr. Trapnell of recent years having' placed praptically 'no limit upon the price he was willing to pay io.r certain examples. . There is, for instance, the Burke tea service, the most elaborately ornamented tea service known, which 'was presented by Champion, the presiding genius of the factory, to Mrs. Burke, the wife of the famous states* man, who was M.P. for Bristol for several years; also tha service originally the prp/party of Lord Nelson and left by Hilaire Countess Nelson to her nephew, and finally purchased »t pbristie's by Mr.