c.1790 British New hall Porcelain Chinoisiere cups

c.1790 British Newhall Chinoisiere cups. Selling both, one New Hall Tea Bowl Chinoiserie pattern #20 c.1790. 3.25" wide x 1 7/8" tall. other 3 5/8" wide x 2.25" tall with No cracks, chips, or restorations. New Hall Porcelain, Shelton, Staffordshire, England 1781-1835 The New Hall Company was an interesting project from its inception as, unlike many of the other porcelain manufacturing concerns of the 18th century which came about through varying degrees of trial, error, favour and fortune, it was a deliberately conceived business plan set up with a specific aim from the outset. The development of hard-paste porcelain in the South West of England under the direction of William Cookworthy and one of Bristol's many Quaker merchants, Richard Champion, had carried on with considerable success for a decade or so before the business engaged in its production began to suffer under export restrictions imposed during the course of the American War of Independence. Champion attempted without success to circumvent these measures, before resolving to sell the patents for the production of his by now well regarded hard-paste material, and he managed to dispose of them to a consortium of Staffordshire potters who had come together purposefully with a view to obtaining control of these same licenses and to then carry on production under their own remit. And so it was that the syndicate of Messrs Hollins, Keeling, Warburton, Turner, Clowes and Bagnall was formalised, took control