. 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. one on which the pattern is of large proportions, and hasbeen produced by a very wide and coarse comb. The lead mentioned by Plot as used for glazing was thelead ore procured from tlie lead mines of Derbyshire, whichwas powdered, or punned, according to the native dialect,and dusted on to the clay vessel before submitting it to theaction of fire. In 1685 Thomas Miles, of Shelton, made a white stonew
. 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. one on which the pattern is of large proportions, and hasbeen produced by a very wide and coarse comb. The lead mentioned by Plot as used for glazing was thelead ore procured from tlie lead mines of Derbyshire, whichwas powdered, or punned, according to the native dialect,and dusted on to the clay vessel before submitting it to theaction of fire. In 1685 Thomas Miles, of Shelton, made a white stoneware, and at the same time brown stone ware was made atthe same place. The stone ware then made was probablysomewhat akin in appearance to the Bellarmines, &c.,at that time imported in considerable nimibers from Hollandand Germany. D 34 THE WEDGWOODS. As many of my readers may not know to wliat kind ofvessels I allude under the name of Bellarmine, I here givean engraving of two examples to show their form and usual. style of decoration. The Bellarmine, or Long Beard, as itwas commonly called, was a stone-ware pot of bottle form,mostly with a handle at the back and ornament on thefront. The neck is narrow, and the lower part, or belly,as it is technically called, very wide and protuberant. Theywere in very general use at the ale-houses to serve alein to customers, and were of different sizes—the gallonier,containing a gallon; the pottle pot, two quarts; the pot, aquart; and the little pot, a pint. These jugs were derisively named after Cardinal Bellar-mine, who died in 1621. The cardinal having, by his deter-mined and bigoted opposition to the reformed religion, madehimself obnoxious in the Low Countries, became naturallyan object of derision and contempt with the Protestants, who,among other modes of showing their detestation of the man,seized on the potters art to exhibit his short stature, hishard features, and his rotund figure, to become the jest ofthe ale-house, and the b
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