. 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. he Bellarmine, and toshow its common use, and that the ale-pots, by beingformed somewhat on the model of his corpulent figure, andwith his hard-mouthed features impressed in front, be-came a popular and biting burlesque upon the cardinal afterwhom they were named.* • The vulgar name of mug for the human face is most probablyderived from this source—the face on the ale-wn/y, or ale-pot. D 2 36 THE WE
. 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. he Bellarmine, and toshow its common use, and that the ale-pots, by beingformed somewhat on the model of his corpulent figure, andwith his hard-mouthed features impressed in front, be-came a popular and biting burlesque upon the cardinal afterwhom they were named.* • The vulgar name of mug for the human face is most probablyderived from this source—the face on the ale-wn/y, or ale-pot. D 2 36 THE WEDGWOODS. The ordinary ale-pots, the pint-jugs, were, like the grey-beards, principally at first imported, hut were afterwardsundoubtedly made in Staffordshire, and other places in thiskingdom. They were usually ornamented with incised lines,scratched into the soft clay with a sharp point, in form ofscrolls, flowers, &c., and then washed in with blue. Notunfrequently a pattern was impressed from-a mould on thefront, somewhat in the same manner as those on the grey-beards, but consisting usually of a flower or of initials. Oneof these ale-pots, from an example in my own collection, is. here engraved. In the reign of Elizabeth these stone potswere proposed to be made in England, as is shown by thefollowing curious document preserved in the LansdowneManuscripts:— The sewte of William Simpson, merchaunte—Whereas oneGarnet Tynes, a strauuger livinge in Aeon, in the parte beyond the -seas, being none of her ma*ies subjecte, doth buy uppe alle the pottesmade at Culloin, called Drinldng done pottes, and he onelie trans-porteth them into this realm of England, and selleth them : It mayplease your ma*5 to graunt unto the said Simpson full power andoneUe license to provyde transport and bring into this realm thesame or such like drinking pottes; and the said Simpson will puttin good suretie that it shall not be prejudiciall to anie of your ma^^ THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE.
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