. 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. Sefton. Green continued the business after this date, andprinted earthenware for Wedgwood, probably some specialpatterns only, until as late a date as 1793 or 1794. Examplesof Liverpool pottery printed by Sadler and Green, and ofWedgwoods body printed by them, are of uncommon occur-rence. In Mr. Mayers museum, at Liverpool, the best, andindeed only series worthy the name in existence, are to
. 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. Sefton. Green continued the business after this date, andprinted earthenware for Wedgwood, probably some specialpatterns only, until as late a date as 1793 or 1794. Examplesof Liverpool pottery printed by Sadler and Green, and ofWedgwoods body printed by them, are of uncommon occur-rence. In Mr. Mayers museum, at Liverpool, the best, andindeed only series worthy the name in existence, are to befound. In my own possession, too, are some examples. Specimens of these early printed goods, bearing Wedg-woods mark, are rare. I select, as an example, a curiousteapot, in the possession of Mr. S. C. HaU, , whichis highly characteristic and interesting. The teapot bears on one side a remarkably well engravedand sharply printed representation of the quaint subject of GRINDING OLD PEOPLE YOUNG AGAIN. 151 the mill to grind old people young again—the kind of curiousmachine which one recollects in ones boyish days were takenabout from fair to fair by strolling mountebanks—and on the. other an oval border of foliage, containing the ballad belong-ing to the subject, called The Millers Maid grinding OldMen Young again. It begins— Come, old, decrepid, lame, or blind,Into my mill to take a grind. The teapot, which is an excellent specimen of black-printing, is marked WEDGWOOD. In the same superbcollection of Wedgwood ware are also other examples of Queens ware, among which are some plates with flowerspainted in red, in simple and pure taste, and true to nature;a centre and sides with tine figures; and a remarkably elegantand beautifully potted whey jug and cover, formerly in myown collection. In the Museum of Practical Geology is anexample of this printing, the design on one side of which isa group at tea—a lady pouring out tea for a gentleman, andon the opposite side th
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