. 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. both during liispartnership with Wedgwood and afterwards, were of remark-ably good quality, of excellent form, and were well potted in every respect. They are now very scarce, and are highlyand deservedly prized by collectors. I have in my own col- * Probably the imitation agate knife handles. 118 THE WEDGWOODS. lection, among otlier examples, a fine tortoiseshell plateand a small cauliflower jug, w
. 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. both during liispartnership with Wedgwood and afterwards, were of remark-ably good quality, of excellent form, and were well potted in every respect. They are now very scarce, and are highlyand deservedly prized by collectors. I have in my own col- * Probably the imitation agate knife handles. 118 THE WEDGWOODS. lection, among otlier examples, a fine tortoiseshell plateand a small cauliflower jug, which have passed into myhands from the present aged descendant of Uriah Sutton,who is named in more than one place in the document justreferred to as being hired by Whieldon. The tortoise-shell ware is beautifully mottled, sometimes by the rich,reddish brown colour, which belongs to the original, and atother times by a fine green, or deep purplish tinge. Theglaze is invariably good, and the potting itself of thoroughlygood quality. In my own collection is a jardiniere of thiskind of ware, of large size, and of excellent design. In theaccompanying engraving are shown two of these TORTOISESHELL WARE. fine plates—the centre octagonal one measuring in its largestdiameter fifteen and a half inches—a small green cauli-flower jug, and an imitation agate knife-haft, from my owncollection. These are all highly characteristic examples ofthe manufacture of this period. I have it from excellent authority that as early as 1745—when only in his fifteenth year—Josiah Wedgwood hadbegun to make a few trial articles of that improved kind ofware which afterwards obtained for him the distinction of Queens Potter, and for the ware itself that of QueensWare; and these trials and improvements he continued to CLOSE OF WHIELDON AND WEDGWOODS PARTNERSHIP. 119 make and to carry on during the remaining years of his ser-vitude, and afterwards until he brought it to ,
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