. 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. Of pottery of the Norman period I amnot at present aware that any authenti-cated examj^les have been found in Staf-fordshire, though I have no doubt that inthat period the Norman potters workedthe clays of the district, and producedvessels for various uses. These consistedprincipally of bowls or basins, pitchersand dishes; the bowls or basins Ijeingused for drinking purposes, as well as for placing
. 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. Of pottery of the Norman period I amnot at present aware that any authenti-cated examj^les have been found in Staf-fordshire, though I have no doubt that inthat period the Norman potters workedthe clays of the district, and producedvessels for various uses. These consistedprincipally of bowls or basins, pitchersand dishes; the bowls or basins Ijeingused for drinking purposes, as well as for placing the cookedmeats in, and the pitchers for holding and carrying the wine,ale, mead, water, and other liquors, to the table. In theneighbom-ing county, Derbyshire, a most interesting dis-covery of a Norman pot-work was recently made by myself,f€ind one or two of the forms of vessels therein found aregiven in the engravings on the two following pages. The clayis usually of a coarse kind, and the vessels in some, or ratherin most instances, bear evidence of the wheel having beenused. In colour they are sometimes of a reddish-brown, atothers of a tolerably good red, and at other times, • These were the origin of our tumblers; the glasses then madeI being rounded at the bottom, so that they must be filled while held, and[could not be set down until emptied, without spilling. t This pot-work is the only one either of the Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-iNorman periods which has ever been discovered, and is therefore of greatlinterest and importance. A notice of the discovery will be found in theI Reliquary, vol. ii. p. 216. C 18 THE WEDGWOODS. nearly black; and one great peculiarity is, that many of thepitchers, or jngs, are covered with a green glaze. They are
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