The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works and Their Productions, Memoirs of the Wedgewood and Other Families, and a History of the Early Potteries of StaffordshireVirtue Brothers and Company, 1865 - 435 pages |
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... appear , and , by following their ramifications back to the most remote time , take up the thread of history , and connect the early efforts of primeval man , with his rude and clumsy vessels of coarse clay , with those of his ...
... appear , and , by following their ramifications back to the most remote time , take up the thread of history , and connect the early efforts of primeval man , with his rude and clumsy vessels of coarse clay , with those of his ...
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... all wantonly destroyed . They appear to have been of the usual form , with somewhat elaborate zigzag ornaments . An urn , with the upper rim punctured THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE . 7 in three rows. 6 THE WEDGWOODS .
... all wantonly destroyed . They appear to have been of the usual form , with somewhat elaborate zigzag ornaments . An urn , with the upper rim punctured THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE . 7 in three rows. 6 THE WEDGWOODS .
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... appear to be hand - made ( i.e. without the use of the wheel ) , and are tolerably well baked . The ornaments usually consist of encircling incised lines in bands or otherwise , and vertical or zig - zag lines , arranged in a variety of ...
... appear to be hand - made ( i.e. without the use of the wheel ) , and are tolerably well baked . The ornaments usually consist of encircling incised lines in bands or otherwise , and vertical or zig - zag lines , arranged in a variety of ...
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... name , being connected with Youlgreave and other places in that neighbouring county . The Tygs , " of which I have before spoken , appear to THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE . 25 have been made. 24 THE WEDGWOODS .
... name , being connected with Youlgreave and other places in that neighbouring county . The Tygs , " of which I have before spoken , appear to THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE . 25 have been made. 24 THE WEDGWOODS .
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... appears that , by being porous , the dealers soaked them in water , and thus the buyer did not get nearly his proper weight of butter . 13 and 14 Charles II . cap . 26 , 1661 . In 1686 , Dr. Plot published his " Staffordshire ,
... appears that , by being porous , the dealers soaked them in water , and thus the buyer did not get nearly his proper weight of butter . 13 and 14 Charles II . cap . 26 , 1661 . In 1686 , Dr. Plot published his " Staffordshire ,
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Aaron Wedgwood accompanying engraving aforesaid afterwards artists bas-reliefs basaltes bearing beauty body brother Burslem Byerley canal Champion china Churchyard clay collectors colour Cookworthy copy daughter Delft Derby died discovery district Ditto EARLY POTTERIES earthenware Eginton Elers encaustic painting Etruria examples excellent fictile Flaxman Francis Wedgwood give and bequeath glaze Guy Green Hall Hanley honour improvements inches interesting invention jasper JEWITT John Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood kiln kind letter Liverpool manufacture married Mary materials medallions Messrs models moulds museum ornamental Overhouse painted partner partnership patent period persons Petunse pieces porcelain Portland Vase portrait possession pot-works POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE potters pounds present produced Queen's ware Richard Wedgwood Stoke-upon-Trent stone taste Thomas Bentley Thomas Byerley Thomas Wedgwood Thomas Whieldon tion trade unto vases vessels Wedg Wedgwood family Whieldon wife William William Cookworthy wood
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Page 35 - O'ershadowed by thy rough beard like a wood ; Or like a larger jug that some men call A Bettarmine, but we a Conscience: Whereon the lewder hand of pagan workman Over the proud ambitious head hath carved • An idol large, with beard episcopal, Making the vessel look like tyrant Eglon.
Page 251 - The bill passed the house of commons, and was sent up to the lords, by whom it was read a second time, and committed : but the ministry employing their whole strength against it, on the report it was thrown out by a majority of two voices.
Page 188 - Jasper; a white porcelain biscuit 'of exquisite beauty and delicaey, possessing the general properties of the basaltes, together with the singular one of receiving through its whole substance, from the admixture of metallic calces with the other materials, the same colours which those calces communicate to glass or enamels in fusion ; a property which no other porcelain or earthenware body of ancient or modern composition has been found to possess. This renders it peculiarly fit for making...
Page 174 - Peak, or one of his own carters ; but when he speaks all ears listen, and every mind is filled with wonder at the things he pronounces to be practicable. He has cut a mile through bogs, which he binds up, embanking them with stones, which he gets out of other parts of the navigation, besides about a quarter of a mile into the hill Yelden, on the side of which he has a pump...
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Page 212 - I am just returned from viewing the Wedgewood-ware that is to be sent to the Empress of Russia. It consists I believe of as many pieces as there are days in the year, if not hours. They are displayed at a house in Greek-street, Soho, called
Page 200 - WHEREAS His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the...
Page 78 - In the name of God, Amen. I, William Shakspere, of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised) do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following...
Page 416 - ... together with interest for the same in the mean time after the rate of 51.
Page 82 - AB, of in the county of gentleman, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.