Miles Mason (1752–1822) was a chinaman in Fenchurch Street who sold imported porcelain from China. When these imports ceased, he developed a successful replacement – ironstone china – which was then exported to other countries.[1][2][3]

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Citations

  1. ^ Roberts & Godden 1996, p. foreword.
  2. ^ Coutts 2001, p. 153.
  3. ^ Nichols 1822.

Sources

  • Roberts, Gaye; Godden, Geoffrey (1996), Mason's, The First Two Hundred Years, Merrell Holberton
  • Coutts, Howard (2001), "Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Britain", The Art of Ceramics: European Ceramic Design, 1500-1830, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300083873
  • Nichols, John (1822), "Mr. Miles Mason", The Gentleman's Magazine, 131: 474–475