. 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. were found in stone cists along with skeletons lying incontracted positions. They are in the possession of my. friend Mr. J. F. Lncas, whose collection contains manyinteresting examples of fictile art. * For ati aocnnnt of tliis discoverj see the Roliqiinrv QuarterlyArchneolosical .lovirnal and Review, a^oI. iii. p. IW. 12 THE WEDGWOODS. The engraving here given shows a remarkably formed vessel from
. 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. were found in stone cists along with skeletons lying incontracted positions. They are in the possession of my. friend Mr. J. F. Lncas, whose collection contains manyinteresting examples of fictile art. * For ati aocnnnt of tliis discoverj see the Roliqiinrv QuarterlyArchneolosical .lovirnal and Review, a^oI. iii. p. IW. 12 THE WEDGWOODS. The engraving here given shows a remarkably formed vessel from Wetton, Stafford-sliire, whicli is peculiar by havinglooped ears at its sides. The incense-cups of Stafford-shire, like those of Derbyshire,vary in form nud in st}le ofdecoration. They are very smallvessels, not more than from aninch and a half to three inches in height. The ornamentsare, as in the other remains of this period, incised orindented lines. Their nsiial forms are seen in the accom-panying engravings. The first, a remarkably fine example, was found in a
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