. 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. as usual, is trellised in red and black, is the name THOMASTOFT. In the same museum is another remarkably fine dishbearing two full-length figures in the costume of the Stuarts,the gentleman holding in his hand his hat and feather, andhaving petticoat breeches, tied stockings, and high-heeledboots with ties, and the lady holding a bunch of the figures are the initials W. T., and on t
. 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. as usual, is trellised in red and black, is the name THOMASTOFT. In the same museum is another remarkably fine dishbearing two full-length figures in the costume of the Stuarts,the gentleman holding in his hand his hat and feather, andhaving petticoat breeches, tied stockings, and high-heeledboots with ties, and the lady holding a bunch of the figures are the initials W. T., and on the rimat the bottom, in precisely the same manner as the Toftdishes, is the name WILLIAM : TALOll. Another dish ofthis kind is in the possession of Mr. Mills, of Norwich. 24 THE WEDGWOODS. I The clisli is nineteen inches in diameter. It bears threeheads in ovals, with foliage, &c., and the name EALPHOFT,or Ralph Toft, the H and T being apparently ground is buff, and the ornaments are laid on in darkand light brown clay. It is engraved on the next maker of this period, whose name occurs in thesame manner as those just described, was WILLIAM Of the makers of these dishes, it is interesting to observethat Toft is an old name connected with the potterydistrict, and that members of the family are still pottersin the neighbourhood. It is also an old Derbyshire name,being connected with Youlgreave and other places in thatneighbouring county. The Tygs, of which I have before spoken, appear to THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 2o have been made in considerable numbers, and, indeed, tohave constituted one of the staple manufactures of thepotters of that day. They were the ordinary drinking-cnpsof the period, and .were made with one, two, three, four, ormore handles. The two-handled ones are said to have been
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