| The making of pottery progressed with the | | | | composition and certainly very strong. The heavy |
| progress of centuries. There are various types of | | | | ware, almost unbreakable, was both cheap and |
| pottery and coated or painted with different | | | | showy. It was made in the form of domestic |
| types and styles of decorations. We will see here | | | | pieces with pseudo-oriental decoration in vivid |
| how pottery has progressed till today. | | | | blues and reds, and many of the big dinner |
| Early in the nineteenth century came the | | | | services are still being used. Sets of jugs, with |
| introductions of pieces decorated with luster, both | | | | handles in the shape of dragons, were made also |
| silver- and copper-colored, and there was a great | | | | and are not uncommon. |
| variety among the finished products. Silver luster | | | | A style of decoration that is occasionally seen, |
| on a canary-yellow ground is the rarest, but silver | | | | particularly on jugs and tankards, is known as |
| in conjunction with under-glaze blue, especially if | | | | mocha, from a resemblance to a type of quartz |
| the latter is a sporting subject, is sought after and | | | | of that name, and has brown moss-like blotches |
| expensive. | | | | on it. The stains were made with the aid of |
| Whole tea-sets were made at one period, each | | | | tobacco-juice and hops, and doubtless gave |
| piece covered completely with a thin film of silver | | | | pleasure to the potters making it. |
| luster, and they were a passable imitation of the | | | | Children were catered for from about 1830 with |
| real thing for those who could not afford to buy | | | | small plates printed with moral rhymes and other |
| the genuine metal. Copper-lusted pieces have | | | | suitable subjects. Many were made in |
| been made since about 1800 and production has | | | | Staffordshire, but some came from |
| been continuous for some 150 years; which | | | | Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham. |
| explains why so many 'early nineteenth-century' | | | | Enoch Wood and John Walton were prominent |
| specimens are obtainable. | | | | among makers of figures, many of them of small |
| Although cream ware continued to be made, | | | | size and colored in opaque enamels with green |
| white-glazed pottery was developed from 1780 | | | | predominating. Many of Walton's bear an |
| to compete with porcelain and was produced in | | | | impressed stamp with the name of the maker. |
| great quantities by many makers. At first it had | | | | Later pieces, introduced in about 1850, are the |
| decoration printed solely in under glaze blue, but | | | | well-known Staffordshire chimneypiece ornaments |
| later developments included a wide range of | | | | in the form of portrait-figures, often |
| colors. Whole services were made, and Spode, | | | | unrecognizable without the name painted on the |
| Wedgwood and Davenport (all of Staffordshire) | | | | front of the base, ranging from politicians to |
| were among the more prominent of the hundreds | | | | murderers. |
| of names associated with it. The earlier | | | | Besides the other the introduction of ironstone |
| blueprinted ware is very well finished and some of | | | | china in the first half of the nineteenth century. |
| the patterns are most attractive; a few, including | | | | There were almost unbreakable and showy |
| the willow pattern, are still being made. | | | | potteries. And potteries were also made to suite |
| One of the most popular introductions of the first | | | | the different moods of people in different shapes |
| half of the nineteenth century was ironstone | | | | and sizes as well. |
| china, said to contain ironstone slag in its | | | | |