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Rockingham|ˈrɒkɪŋəm|
The title of Charles Watson-Wentworth, second Marquis of Rockingham (1730–82), applied attrib. to earthenware, china, a variety of glaze, etc., produced on his estate at the Old Works, Swinton, Yorks., from c 1745 to 1842. Also applied loosely to similar products. Now usu. designating pieces of a tea-service. Also ellipt.
[1832G. Richardson in Cabinet Cycl. No. 26. 22 At the Rockingham works, which have been so named in compliment to their early patron, the celebrated marquess of Rockingham, porcelain is now produced which vies successfully in every kind of excellence with that of older English establishments.] 1857J. Marryat Hist. Pott. & Porc. (ed. 2) xii. 291 They [sc. the works] also manufactured the brown or chocolate-coloured ware, which obtained the name of ‘Rockingham ware’. 1863W. Chaffers Marks Pott. & Porc. 134 A sort of brown or chocolate-coloured ware, made in the beginning of the present Century, obtained the name of Rockingham ware. 1869C. Schreiber Jrnl. 4 Nov. (1911) I. 60, 3 Rockingham cups and saucers and 3 plates. 1870Ibid. 11 Feb. (1911) I. 66 A few good bits of Chelsea,..one of Rockingham (very good). 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork ii. 110 The temperature at which Rockingham ware is fired is suitable for this [underglaze] work. 1900F. Litchfield Pott. & Porc. vii. 94 The ware is highly glazed, some of it being not unlike the brown Rockingham ware. 1935G. Greene England made Me ii. 57 The Minister stood above his Rockingham china. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 194/1 ‘Rockingham’ glaze, a lustrous, purple-brown lead glaze (stained with manganese) made at the Rockingham factory, Swinton, early nineteenth century, and in Staffordshire. 1960R. Collier House called Memory xii. 171 Croquet on the lawn at four o'clock with the Rockingham tea-service as background. 1963Times 23 Feb. 11/7 There were many bone china potters in Staffordshire making cottages: their productions, without any justification, are classed arbitrarily as Rockingham and thus acquire the market value of that establishment's brilliant reputation. The flowers on Rockingham cottages are usually less disproportionately large than those ornamenting cottages made elsewhere. 1965[see Davenport2]. 1973L. Cooper Tea on Sunday 11 The dark blue and gold Rockingham cup. |