. 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. preserved in the Jermyn Street Museum. It is, as will beseen, pierced through the centre. In some instances a tube is passed from the handle down,inside the jug, to the bottom, and thus adds to the difficultyof drinking, Without you spill or let some fall. In one in my own possession, too, the inside of the jug ismade funnel-shaped, with double sides, which is a veryunusual mode of construction. The
. 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. preserved in the Jermyn Street Museum. It is, as will beseen, pierced through the centre. In some instances a tube is passed from the handle down,inside the jug, to the bottom, and thus adds to the difficultyof drinking, Without you spill or let some fall. In one in my own possession, too, the inside of the jug ismade funnel-shaped, with double sides, which is a veryunusual mode of construction. The same kind of ware as the Toft dishes, given on a pre-ceding page, was made in the potteries throughout the latter THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 55 lialf of the seventeentli and most part of the eighteenthfcnturics. Of this kind of ware is the highly interesting. rehc which is here engraved. It is, as will be seen, a smallearthenware cradle of excellent form, and elaborately orna-mented. It is of brown ware, similar, but of finer quality,to the dishes. The ground is a rich reddishbrown, the orna-ments of buff and black. It is peculiarly interesting, asbearing the date on its top of 1693. This valuable exampleof English fictile art, which is 7f inches long, and 4f inchesin height, is in the Bateman museum at Lomberdale House,where there are several other interesting s^jecimeus, to someof which I shall yet have occasion to refer. In all these pieces the ware is first coated over with itsground colour, and the patterns then dra-^vn on in slip,one colour on the other, and afterwards glazed. The outlinesare generally of the darkest coloured slip, with dots, orpellets of buff. • Delft ware was made in Staffordshire about the period ofwhich I have been writing, and continued to be made untilits use was superseded by the other bodies. Examples ofEng
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