Crockery & glass journal . way to actual hostility,provoked by the secret ways and methods of theforeigners. Insults, if no harder missiles, were hurl-ed at them continually, and all sorts of difficultiesplaced in their way; they were threatened; but inspite of all, with indomitable perseverance they kept ,on their way. They finished their little works andproceeded to make pots. At this period both the Dutch and English EastIndia Companies imported from China into England an uncommon amount of skill and technial considerable time was taken in experimentingin, selecting and prepa
Crockery & glass journal . way to actual hostility,provoked by the secret ways and methods of theforeigners. Insults, if no harder missiles, were hurl-ed at them continually, and all sorts of difficultiesplaced in their way; they were threatened; but inspite of all, with indomitable perseverance they kept ,on their way. They finished their little works andproceeded to make pots. At this period both the Dutch and English EastIndia Companies imported from China into England an uncommon amount of skill and technial considerable time was taken in experimentingin, selecting and preparing the various clays neces-sary for the fine productions at which they would appear that all the finer processes in mixingand manipulation were performed by skilled workmen were allowed on their employed only idiots and simple-minded personswho were not likely to understand or communicatethe secret processes they saw. Extraordinary pre-cautions were taken to prevent leakage. All their. AHRENFELDT CHINA AT HERMAN C. KUPPER S. and Continental countries a fine, red, well-finished,but unglazed pottery ware, much soughl after by thedilettanti of the times and for which high prices werepaid. Various attempts had been made by Germanand Dutch potters to imitate this particular ware,but with indifferent success. At the same time coarsered pottery was being exported to these countriesfrom Staffordshire. It is reasonable to infer that,struck with the resemblance of the basic clay of theStaffordshire pottery to that of the finer Orientalproduction, these astute Elers had conceived theidea that with such a material to hand success inthis direction might be attained. This then was thesecret of their arduous and risky migration to theancient home of pottery in England. It is certain that the Elers must have been notonly provided with substantial capital, but also with employees were searched each day on coming andleaving, and on the slightest suspicion o
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