. 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. r or five guineas a pair. These were never TEA AND COFFEE EQUIPAGES. 335 made to a great extent, and are now scarce, and muchsought after by collectors. Class Thirteen was a very important division in theproductions of Wedgwoods establishment. It comprisedtea and coffee equipages of every variety of shape and styleof decoration. In this class the teapots, coffee-pots,chocolates, sugar dishes, cream
. 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. r or five guineas a pair. These were never TEA AND COFFEE EQUIPAGES. 335 made to a great extent, and are now scarce, and muchsought after by collectors. Class Thirteen was a very important division in theproductions of Wedgwoods establishment. It comprisedtea and coffee equipages of every variety of shape and styleof decoration. In this class the teapots, coffee-pots,chocolates, sugar dishes, cream ewers, with cabinet cups andsaucers, and all the articles of the tea-table and dejeune, weremade in the bamboo and basaltes, both plain and en-riched with Grecian and Etruscan ornaments. They werelikewise made in jasper of two colours, polished within(not glazed) like the natural stone, ornamented with bas-reliefs, and very highly finished, and of truly exquisitebeauty. In the catalogue issued by Josiah Wedgwood in1787, is an aquatint plate printed in colours, of one of thesebeautiful cups, in which the artist (I have reason to believeFrancis Eginton)* has sought to show the transparency of. the thin jasper. This cup, with the addition of the gildino-from a fragment of one of these very choice pieces inmy own collection, I show on the accompanying material is the finest and most delicate jasper, thebody of intense hardness, the surface truly, as Mr. Glad- ⢠Some particulars regarding Eginton and liLs works will be givenlater on. 336 ⢠THE WEDGWOODS. stone has so well expressed it, soft as an infants fleshto the touch, and the decoration and workmanship ofmarvellous beauty and finish. In Mr. Halls collection are,among other rare examples of tea and cofiee-cups, &c.,a choice coffee-cup of black jasper, white inside, with whiterims, white wreaths, and a blue and white cameo in front; abamboo or cane-coloured embossed teapot and stand, withraised red border and
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