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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Chaffers, son of a shipwright in Liverpool, started in business at
Shaw's Brow in 1752. He produced
blue and white porcelain, mainly for export to the American colonies. In 1755 Robert Podmore, a potter from
the porcelain factory in Worcester, showed him and his business partner Philip Christian how to make porcelain using
soapstone, discovered in
Mullion Cove in Cornwall; Chaffers subsequently became a rival to
Josiah Wedgwood. Chaffers died in 1765, and was buried at the
Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool. Philip Christian continued the business until 1778, trading as Philip Christian & Co, and later as Philip Christian and Son. ==See also==