| There were many potters whose names could
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| | material was being potted in quantity in
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| not be recognized due the
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| | the Staffordshire towns, in Liverpool,
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| non-availability or only the availability
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| | and elsewhere. Most of the ware, which
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| of their initials which does not help the
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| | was made not only into domestic articles
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| collectors to identify the makers of some
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| | but also figures, was ornamented with
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| of the masterpieces that had been found
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| | raised patterns, and the thin smear of
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| in different parts of the world.
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| | glaze with which it was covered did not
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| Much of the nineteenth-century ware was
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| | clog the delicate lines as a flowing
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| marked by the makers, but often only with
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| | lead-glaze would have done. Both
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| initials, which do not help the collector
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| | overgraze and under glaze colors were
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| very much. Printed pieces usually have
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| | used with great effect.
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| the name of the pattern.
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| | While white stoneware was finally unable
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| Stoneware
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| | to withstand the competition of Queen's
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| Stoneware is a very hard non-porous type
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| | Ware and porcelain, a further refinement
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| of pottery, introduced into England in
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| | of materials and technique enabled
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| the sixteenth century from Germany. A
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| | Wedgwood to produce with it his
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| feature of the ware is that it was glazed
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| | celebrated jasper ware. This is the
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| by putting common salt into the kiln
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| | pottery from which were made the
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| while it was being fired; thus arises the
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| | thousands of relief portraits, plaques
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| term salt-glazed stoneware. The resulting
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| | and vases that spread the name of their
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| pottery is hard, strong and watertight,
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| | inventor and maker throughout the world.
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| and it can be made into objects much
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| | In addition to this ware, most familiar
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| thinner in body than can ordinary clay
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| | when colored blue but made also in pale
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| pottery.
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| | shades of yellow, lilac and green
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| Nottingham was a big centre for making
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| | Wedgwood developed a black stoneware
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| stoneware from the late seventeenth
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| | (basaltes), a red stoneware (rosso
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| century, and pieces with a hard grey body
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| | antico) and a buflf-coloured (cane ware),
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| and a brown glaze of orange-peel texture
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| | all of which contributed to the fame and
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| came from there. Many such pieces bear
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| | expansion of Staffordshire.
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| names and dates. Other factories nearby
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| | It is as well to remember that the
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| in Derbyshire made similar wares.
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| | descendants of Josiah Wedgwood are still
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| John Dwight founded a factory at Fulham,
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| | making jasper and basaltes wares, and
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| a suburb of London, in 1671. A number of
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| | have done so continuously since the
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| pieces made by him, after two centuries
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| | eighteenth century. The oldest examples
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| in the possession of his family and now
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| | reveal their age by the superior fineness
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| in the British and Victoria and Albert
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| | of their modeling and the velvet-like
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| Museums, are extraordinarily well
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| | smoothness of their surface.
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| modeled, and it has been suggested that
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| | Brown stoneware was made throughout the
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| they are the work of the wood-carver and
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| | nineteenth century, but the productions
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| sculptor, Grilling Gibbons. Dwight
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| | are far from exciting. Flasks in the form
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| claimed to have invented a method of
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| | of politicians and pistols were made, and
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| making porcelain, but nothing resembling
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| | a large number of jugs in imitation of
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| our modern meaning of the term can be
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| | seventeenth-century originals often
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| attributed to him.
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| | deceive collectors.
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| In Staffordshire, red stoneware in
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| | Stoneware was introduced into England in
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| imitation of some imported from China,
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| | the sixteenth century from Germany. This
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| was made by two Dutch brothers named
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| | is a glazed ware. Nottingham was a big
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| Elers, who had worked at one time with
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| | centre for making stoneware from the late
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| Dwight at Fulham. By 1725Dwight's greyish
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| | seventeenth century. There were some
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| stoneware had been improved in colour
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| | potters who mastered the making of the
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| until it was nearly white, and it was not
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| | stoneware products.
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| long before this excellent salt-glazed
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