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Daniel made and decorated high quality porcelain goods and in their heyday were serious rivals of other leading firms such as Spode and Minton. Born in 1765, Henry Daniel was the son of a colour maker and worked as a porcelain decorator. From 1805 he became responsible for all the enamelling and gilding at the Spode factory, working as an on-site sub-contractor. He employed nearly a third of the factory's workforce and was responsible for much of Spode's early success. In 1822 he left Spode to set up his own manufactory in Minton's former premises and in 1827 took his son Richard into partnership, becoming H. & R. Daniel. They pioneered techniques of enamelling and gilding and produced prestigious commissions, such as an order for the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1827 which helped to promote their wares. They became known for their wide range of shapes and the magnificence of their decoration. However, unlike Spode and Minton, H. & R. Daniel was relatively short-lived and rarely marked its wares or marketed them under the factory name, as they were sold through major London dealers who generally vetoed the use of factory marks. Richard inherited the company from his father in 1841, and although he was ambitious, he was not a good businessman, with the company ceasing trade in 1846. The factory’s short lifespan and unmarked wares resulted in H. & R. Daniel porcelains and the factory's importance going for a long time unrecognised.\n\r\nIn more recent years the significance of the factory has been reappraised, due to the survival of the factory’s pattern book, Michael Berthoud’s research into the Daniel factory, and the ongoing work and research of the Daniel Ceramic Circle. Pattern books are important and often rare surviving historical documents, originally compiled by in-house designers as a storehouse of potential designs, a record of designs produced, and as references for the painters employed to decorate the ceramics. The V&A is now the key repository of pages from the H. &. R. Daniel pattern book, holding 26 sheets acquired from Parsons in 1881 (8769:1-26), 12 sheets purchased in 2004 (E.3843 to 3853-2004), and six sheets acquired in 2022 (two donated, E.286 and 287-2022, and four purchased with support from the Daniel Ceramic Circle, E.357 to 360-2022).","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"H. & R. 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Beardmore began collecting ceramics in the 1970s, originally interested in Meissen porcelain figurines and the Yates factory, before focusing on H & R Daniel. He collected Daniel until his death, building up an important reference collection that numbered around 3000 pieces. Beardmore was an active member of the Daniel Ceramic Circle, a society dedicated to the study of H & R Daniel originally born out of seminars run by Michael Berthoud and Geoffrey Godden. Beardmore regularly researched and published on Daniel, co-authoring several books that have become essential to the study and identification of Daniel wares, wares which are rarely marked and therefore have to be recognised by shape alone. 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