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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... piece 81. Medallion portrait of Josiah Wedgwood 82 . Mrs. Wedgwood 83. Autograph of Thomas Bentley 84. Medallion portrait of Thomas Bentley 85. Imitation marble and porphyry vases , two examples 86 . 87. Group of Egyptian black or ...
... piece 81. Medallion portrait of Josiah Wedgwood 82 . Mrs. Wedgwood 83. Autograph of Thomas Bentley 84. Medallion portrait of Thomas Bentley 85. Imitation marble and porphyry vases , two examples 86 . 87. Group of Egyptian black or ...
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... pieces with a wire , and the least stones or gravel pick't out of it . This being done , they wage it , i.e. knead or mould it like bread , and make it into round balls pro- portionable to their work ; and then ' tis brought to the ...
... pieces with a wire , and the least stones or gravel pick't out of it . This being done , they wage it , i.e. knead or mould it like bread , and make it into round balls pro- portionable to their work ; and then ' tis brought to the ...
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... piece , i.e. Quart , in hollow ware , so that six pottle , or three gallon bottles , make a dozen , and so more or less to a dozen as they are of greater or lesser content . The flat wares are also reckoned by pieces and dozens , but ...
... piece , i.e. Quart , in hollow ware , so that six pottle , or three gallon bottles , make a dozen , and so more or less to a dozen as they are of greater or lesser content . The flat wares are also reckoned by pieces and dozens , but ...
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... piece of earthenware , connected with the Wedgwood family , has recently been added to the Museum of Practical Geology , and as it is dated of the period to which in my narrative I have now arrived , I have introduced an engraving on ...
... piece of earthenware , connected with the Wedgwood family , has recently been added to the Museum of Practical Geology , and as it is dated of the period to which in my narrative I have now arrived , I have introduced an engraving on ...
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... pieces the ware is first coated over with its ground colour , and the patterns then drawn on in " slip , " one colour on the other , and afterwards glazed . The outlines are generally of the darkest coloured slip , with dots , or ...
... pieces the ware is first coated over with its ground colour , and the patterns then drawn on in " slip , " one colour on the other , and afterwards glazed . The outlines are generally of the darkest coloured slip , with dots , or ...
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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.