. 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 accompanying engraving of two plates of Delft ware,from my own collection, will serve to show the commoner ^l 58 THE WEDGWOODS. and more homely kind of goods of that peculiar kind madein this country; and the next illustration will show anexample of the Delft ware to which I have alluded as beingsaid to have been made in Liverpool, from the splendidmuseum of my friend Mr. Mayer, It is one
. 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 accompanying engraving of two plates of Delft ware,from my own collection, will serve to show the commoner ^l 58 THE WEDGWOODS. and more homely kind of goods of that peculiar kind madein this country; and the next illustration will show anexample of the Delft ware to which I have alluded as beingsaid to have been made in Liverpool, from the splendidmuseum of my friend Mr. Mayer, It is one of a pair. of flower-pots of Delft ware richly decorated in blue, andhaving heads at their sides. Dated examples of Delft ware are not uncommon, and theengraving on the following page, of the central pattern froma plate belonging to Mr. Mills, exhibits one very favouritestyle of ornamentation—that of having the names, &c., ofthe parties for whom the piece was made painted on good specimen of English Delft ware is shown in theinscribed puzzle jug engraved on a preceding page. Sometimes the colours introduced on Delft ware were otherthan blue, green, yellow, or red. Blue was, however, the pre-vailing colour for all decorations, and continued in use till theware ceased to be made. So accustomed had the Staffordshirepotters become to blue and white ware, from the time ofthe manufacture of Delft ware downwards, through thedifferent improvements of earthenware to the introduction THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 69 of blue printing-, that it became, as it were, almost a partand parce
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