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The importance of armorial porcelain as reference points for historical chronology and provenancing is discussed for the few examples which are extant from the Swansea and Nantgarw factories compared with their contemporaries. Important armorial commissions depicting crests or coats of arms are detailed and their placement in the historical record is undertaken wherever possible.
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Edwards, H.G.M. (2017). Armorial Porcelains. In: Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48713-7_8
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