. 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. rslem and the surrounding material is a coarse reddish or buff-coloured clay, andthe ornaments are laid on in different coloured clavs, andthe whole is then glazed thickly over. One of these largedishes, now in the Museum of Practical Geology, is shownon the accompanying engraving. The body is of buff-coloured clay, with the ornaments laid on in relief in lightand dark brown. The border i
. 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. rslem and the surrounding material is a coarse reddish or buff-coloured clay, andthe ornaments are laid on in different coloured clavs, andthe whole is then glazed thickly over. One of these largedishes, now in the Museum of Practical Geology, is shownon the accompanying engraving. The body is of buff-coloured clay, with the ornaments laid on in relief in lightand dark brown. The border is trellised, and in the centre isa lion rampant, crowned. On the rim beneath the lion is the THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 23 name of the maker, THOMAS TOFT. In the same museum isa fragment of another similar dish, with the lion and very fine dish of a similar kind, and by the same maker,is preserved in the museum of my late friend, Mr. Bateman,at Lomberdale House, and is engraved on the next is twenty-two inches in diameter, and bears a half-lengthcrowned portrait of King Charles, with sceptre in each hand,and the initials Below the figure, on the rim, which,. as usual, is trellised in red and black, is the name THOMASTOFT. In the same museum is another remarkably fine dishbearing two full-length figures in the costume of the Stuarts,the gentleman holding in his hand his hat and feather, andhaving petticoat breeches, tied stockings, and high-heeledboots with ties, and the lady holding a bunch of the figures are the initials W. T., and on the rimat the bottom, in precisely the same manner as the Toftdishes, is the name WILLIAM : TALOll. Another dish ofthis kind is in the possession of Mr. Mills, of Norwich. 24 THE WEDGWOODS. I The clisli is nineteen inches in diameter. It bears threeheads in ovals, with foliage, &c., and the name EALPHOFT,or Ralph Toft, the H and T being apparently ground is buff, and the ornaments ar
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