. 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. THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 9 in general form from those with the usual overlapping rims,and one of them has the peculiarity of looj^ecl ears at its may possibly have been the work of the females of amigratory tribe. The Celtic drinking-vessels found in the Staffordshire andDerbyshire barrows are generally from about six to nineinches in height, tall in form, contracted in the m
. 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. THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 9 in general form from those with the usual overlapping rims,and one of them has the peculiarity of looj^ecl ears at its may possibly have been the work of the females of amigratory tribe. The Celtic drinking-vessels found in the Staffordshire andDerbyshire barrows are generally from about six to nineinches in height, tall in form, contracted in the middle,globular in their lower half, and expanding at the are usually very richly ornamented with indented linesin ditFerent patterns ; are carefully formed by hand, of fineand well-tempered clay, mixed with fine sand, and are welltired. They are the finest and best productions of Celticfictile art. Two examples from barrows in the adjoining.
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