. 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. examj)le of Wedgwood ware, but of a larger and more costly kind. It is a simple but very chaste dejeune service,belonging to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, , HerMajestys Chancellor of the Exchequer, to whom I havepleasure in expressing my obligations for the use of hiscollection, and for other acts of kindly courtesy. Of this MR. Gladstones collection. 325 jjeune service Mr. Gladstone says, in
. 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. examj)le of Wedgwood ware, but of a larger and more costly kind. It is a simple but very chaste dejeune service,belonging to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, , HerMajestys Chancellor of the Exchequer, to whom I havepleasure in expressing my obligations for the use of hiscollection, and for other acts of kindly courtesy. Of this MR. Gladstones collection. 325 jjeune service Mr. Gladstone says, in his Wedg^\-ood : anAddress:—I have a dejeuner, nearly slate-colonred, of theware which, I believe, is called jasper ware. This seemsto me a perfect model of workmanship and taste. The trayis a short oval, extremely light, with a surface as soft asan infants flesh to the touch, and having for ornament ascroll of white ribbon, very graceful in its folds, and shadedwith partial transparency. The detached pieces have a. ribbed surface, and a similar scroll reappears ; while fortheir principal ornament they are dotted with white quatre-foils. These quatrefoils are delicately adjusted in size tothe varying circumferences, and are executed both with atrue feeling of nature and with a precision that wouldscarcely be discredit to a jeweller. Mr. Gladstone possesses a tine collection of English andforeign fictile art, including besides this service a portion ofa Queens ware dessert service, of the plain escallop shellpattern, with leaves effectively drawn, and specimens of red 326 THE WEDGWOODS. ware, as well as imitation of agate, porphyry, and otherspecimens of Wedgwoods manufacture of diiferent periods. The accompanying illustration shows two j)atterns of oneof the most minute and most exquisitely beautiful of theproductions to which the jasper ware was applied—viz.,beads for the neck and for bracelets. Those here exhibited
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