Figure 22  Cup and saucer, New Chelsea Porcelain Co., Longton, StaVordshire, England, ca. 1923. Mark on reverse: Chelson mark. Inscribed: “Henwood Johannesburg.” These pieces display Egyptian-motif decoration, including a scarab, and a Chelson mark that was used in the early 1920s. They were made for Henwood, a department store in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A complete service in this design survives with the inscription “W. Savill & Co. Porcelain House, 22 Oxford Street, W1,” along with the mark. Thorley stated in an interview: “So I made my designs and then went up to London and I went to see Mr. Savill of Savill and Company, Oxford Street. Mr. Savill had a very beautiful china store there, china and glass. So when I showed him these Egyptian patterns, he picked one out and thought it was beautiful. He bought it. I reproduced it at the plant and shipped it to Savill . . . who put a big window display . . . right on Oxford Street, London.”