Nicolas Sprimont

…1743 by Charles Gouyn and Nicolas Sprimont, the latter a silversmith. By the 1750s the sole manager was Sprimont, from whose genius stemmed Chelsea’s greatest achievements. In 1769 the factory was sold to James Cox; and he sold it a year later to William Duesbury of Derby, Derbyshire, who maintained…

…1743 by Charles Gouyn and Nicolas Sprimont, the latter a silversmith. The rare surviving specimens include jugs molded in the form of goats and further decorated with an applied bee, obviously based on a silver prototype that no longer exists. (Extant examples of the latter are 19th-century forgeries.) These goat…