. 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. rey, to whome they reckonthem by the piece, Quart, in hollow ware, so that six pottle, oi-three gallon bottles, make a dozen, and so more or less to a dozenas they are of greater or lesser content. The flat wares are alsoreckoned by pieces and dozens, but not (as the holloiv) according totheir co)ttent, but their difierent Iredths.^ THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 33 The vessels marbled,
. 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. rey, to whome they reckonthem by the piece, Quart, in hollow ware, so that six pottle, oi-three gallon bottles, make a dozen, and so more or less to a dozenas they are of greater or lesser content. The flat wares are alsoreckoned by pieces and dozens, but not (as the holloiv) according totheir co)ttent, but their difierent Iredths.^ THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 33 The vessels marbled, mottled, or combed, in the mannerhere so well described by Plot, were dishes and other thingsfor domestic use, and were, it seems, carried about thecountry, as pancheons and other coarse ware are now, byhawkers. The collector will find fragments of this kind ofornamented ware in the museums at Stoke and at Hanley,and others are in my own and other private collections. Adish of this combed ware^ is shown on the accompanyingengraving. Some of the examples are so delicate and minutein their combing, that it would be difficult to show thepattern in so small a size. The one engraved is therefore. one on which the pattern is of large proportions, and hasbeen produced by a very wide and coarse comb. The lead mentioned by Plot as used for glazing was thelead ore procured from tlie lead mines of Derbyshire, whichwas powdered, or punned, according to the native dialect,and dusted on to the clay vessel before submitting it to theaction of fire. In 1685 Thomas Miles, of Shelton, made a white stoneware, and at the same time brown stone ware was made atthe same place. The stone ware then made was probablysomewhat akin in appearance to the Bellarmines, &c.,at that time imported in considerable nimibers from Hollandand Germany. D 34 THE WEDGWOODS. As many of my readers may not know to wliat kind ofvessels I allude under the name of Bellarmine, I here givean engraving of two examples to show th
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