. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. onJos., who is from home this evening, and will let you know theresult in my next. I will try to get a French pye made, and take a mould from it;but ten to one it will be so old-fashioned made here, that it willnot be hked. The original order for St. Andrews Cross did not mention anyhole to be made, for I looked at it myself. Adieu. The body of which the imitation French pies weremade was the Bamboo
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. onJos., who is from home this evening, and will let you know theresult in my next. I will try to get a French pye made, and take a mould from it;but ten to one it will be so old-fashioned made here, that it willnot be hked. The original order for St. Andrews Cross did not mention anyhole to be made, for I looked at it myself. Adieu. The body of which the imitation French pies weremade was the Bamboo ware. Of this same body weremade those wonderful and elegant achievements of fictileart, open-work baskets, which were considered to be amongthe most choice of Wedg-woods productions. The bodywas well calculated, both byits lightness, its colour, andother characteristics, to carryout deception, and to make theplainer patterns pass for real wicker-work of the finestquality. The example here engraved is in the museum at^Hanley. It is an open-work basket and cover, of peculiar3ut remarkably graceful form—a form difiicult to produce,and is ornamented with festoons and wreaths of flowers. aa2. CHAPTER XIX. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD.—HIS LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.—ETRUKIAHALL.—BUKIAL AT STOKE.—MONODY BY REV. W. FERNY- HOUGH.—WEDGWOODS MONUMENT AT STOKE-UPON-TRENT.—OBITUARY NOTICES. I HAVE already, before this digression, brouglit my narrativedown to the middle of the year 1793. In the following yearJosiah Wedgwood was seized with his last illness, and onthe 3rd of January, 1795, breathed his last. From the time when he first—at that early age alreadyspoken of—tm*ned the lumbering potters wheel in that old,old room at the churchyard at Burslem, to the time whenhe lay on his death-bed in that fine mansion, Etruria Hall—built on his own estate, and reared at his own cost—theproprietor of the largest pottery manufactory in the world,and looked up to by people of every class—h
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