. 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. coin was considered certain of <!oud luck in the coming vear,while an early and hai)py marriage was believed to be tliecertain fate of the lucky individual who fished uj) the posset pot, here engraved, of much the same kind of ware Chelsea, and was indeed the distinguishing mark of that celebrated three spots were simply the marks of the stilts, not of the manu-factory, and may
. 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. coin was considered certain of <!oud luck in the coming vear,while an early and hai)py marriage was believed to be tliecertain fate of the lucky individual who fished uj) the posset pot, here engraved, of much the same kind of ware Chelsea, and was indeed the distinguishing mark of that celebrated three spots were simply the marks of the stilts, not of the manu-factory, and may be seen on Delft, and indeed almost all other kinds ofware, and of every period. THE EAELY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 65 as the cradle before illustrated, is in the Bateman MuseiUii,and is dated 1711, and bears the words— GOD : SAVE : THE : QUEEN : 1711: the queen alluded to so loyally being, of course, QueenAnne. For the purpose of showing that the same general formhas obtained to our own time, I here give two other exam-ples, the first one bearing the date of 1750, and the nextthat of 1819. They are both of the hard brown stoneware. made at Chesterfield and Nottingham, and, as is not un-onmion, bear the names of the parties for whom they wereuiaile, incised, scratched into the soft clay with a finepoint. One of the principal jiotters in Burslcm in the early partof last century was Dr. Thomas Wedgwood, junior (son ofDr. Thomas Wedgwood, also an eminent potter), who pro-duced imitation agate, marble, and other coffee and teaI>ots, &c., and made a remarkably fine and good white stoneware, beautifully ornamented with raised patterns, producedfrom the metal or tough torn moulds to which I havebefore alluded. One of the most skilful cutters of these F 66 THE WEDGWOODS. moulds was Aaron Wood, who was apprenticed to Dr. ThomasWedgwood in 1731. The following is the indenture of thisapprenticeship, and will serve to show the wages then paid,and many other interesting particu
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