Sworders to offer ‘toys’ from Hugh Marsham Townshend collection
When in the middle of the century Suffolk collector Hugh Marsham Townshend (1878-1967) was amassing a collection of gold-mounted porcelain scent bottles and other trinkets, most were thought to be the products of the Chelsea porcelain works or a shadowy enterprise known as the ‘Girl in a Swing’ factory.
The name ‘Girl in a Swing’ was used for decades until evidence emerged of a porcelain works that op…