André Duché

Andrew Duché started a pottery about 1730. He interested himself in the manufacture of porcelain and discovered the china clay and feldspathic rock necessary to its manufacture. By 1741 he appears to have made a successful true porcelain but failed to gain adequate financial assistance…

…by the American china maker Andrew Duché of Georgia. The first soft-paste (artificial) porcelain factories were established about this time. A few years later he discovered the only English source of china clay (kaolin) and china stone (petuntse) at St. Austell in Cornwall. After many years of experiment with these…