. 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. roduction as soon to beable to export at a cheaper rate than they could ware, although not generally known to have beenmade in England, was, as I have on another occasion shown,undoul)tedly made in several localities. Liverpool producedits Delft ware of excellent quality, and there its manufacturecontinued till quite a late j^eriod, as many examples inMr. Mayers museum, and in my o
. 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. roduction as soon to beable to export at a cheaper rate than they could ware, although not generally known to have beenmade in England, was, as I have on another occasion shown,undoul)tedly made in several localities. Liverpool producedits Delft ware of excellent quality, and there its manufacturecontinued till quite a late j^eriod, as many examples inMr. Mayers museum, and in my own collection, , Bristol, Lowestoft, and indeed several placesnesides the Staffordshire district, produced the same kindof ware during the last century. The peculiarity of theDelft ware is that the body is formed of a soft buffish-coloured clay, and then washed on its surface with a fine slipof a blueish or greenish-white tint, on which the pattern ispainted—generally in blue—and then glazed over. Theeffect produced is extremely soft and pleasing, and the betterpieces have a nearer approach in softness and brilliance ofappearance to Oriental porcelain than most wares The accompanying engraving of two plates of Delft ware,from my own collection, will serve to show the commoner ^l 58 THE WEDGWOODS. and more homely kind of goods of that peculiar kind madein this country; and the next illustration will show anexample of the Delft ware to which I have alluded as beingsaid to have been made in Liverpool, from the splendidmuseum of my friend Mr. Mayer, It is one of a pair
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