Spode Bone China. Paul Wood, former MD of Spode is interviewed about early Spode's stunning bone china and the role of mastermind, colour maker and enameller Henry Daniel in decorating this new invention of fired clay.
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Henry Daniel, son of Thomas Daniel and Frances née Moore, was born in 1765. His father Thomas (1742-1818) was an important and respected figure in the potteries. He was a colour maker in the days when the industrial process was in its infancy. Only the larger concerns could employ their own colour maker . Smaller manufacturers had to send out their wares for decoration or buy their colours from people like Thomas Daniel or call him in as a consultant. Thomas was in heavy demand and doing very good business, as can be seen from the fact that he could afford to rent a very expensive house.
Thomas' collection of recipes was a most valuable inheritance for his son Henry. It is thought that Henry may have been apprenticed to Richard Dyer in Worcester, because on 10th August 1795 Henry married Richard's daughter, Elizabeth Dyer. Henry and Elizabeth had four children: Thomas born in 1798, Richard in 1800, John in 1802 and Ann in 1805.
Henry Daniel finished his apprenticeship around 1785 and then worked as a decorator of porcelain in Enoch Wood's factory in Burslem, probably until 1787. Evidence of Henry's activities in the next few years is very sparse but Michael Berthoud has speculated that he may have been working for John Mayer. At the beginning of 1796 Henry Daniel went into partnership with John Brown, as potters, enamellers and gilders in Shelton. In 1805 Henry Daniel opened up a branch of this firm within the Spode factory, solely for the purpose of decorating Spode's products. In 1806 Henry broke off the partnership with John Brown, who died shortly afterwards.
Henry brought with him his recipes for glazes, colours, dips, fluxes and so on, and continued his pioneering work within the Spode factory. His contribution to the success of Spode is often underrated.
0:00 Paul Wood Interview
1:26 Spode Earthenware
2:38 Spode Bone China
3:51 Henry Daniel as Partner
4:58 Spode Chinaware
7:10 Separate China Business
7:31 Outro
My 3x Great Grandfather. Samuel Bevington (1808-1863) a political reformist and potter, was apprenticed to both "Mr Daniel and Mr Spode" as he told Hanley magistrates in a local court case that Samuel had brought against his unruly apprentices in 1862. He would have been 13 when in 1821 Henry Daniel was recorded employing 192 staff - 70 males and 119 females.
Full credit to the Daniel Ceramic Circle https://www.danielcc.org/index.php for the image of Henry Daniel and the research into Henry and his son subsequently trading as H&R Daniel.
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