The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood, with memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families and a history of the early potteries of StaffordshireVirtue Brothers, 1865 - 436 pages |
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... bearing the characteristics of Roman use are recorded as having been exhumed ; and equally cer- tain is it that vessels , and fragments of vessels , of undoubted Roman workmanship , have frequently been dug up in the neighbourhood . It ...
... bearing the characteristics of Roman use are recorded as having been exhumed ; and equally cer- tain is it that vessels , and fragments of vessels , of undoubted Roman workmanship , have frequently been dug up in the neighbourhood . It ...
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... bearings , foliage , grotesque figures , inscriptions , & c . , and the patterns not unfrequently extended over four , nine , twelve , or more , tiles . The MEDIEVAL vessels made in Staffordshire , like those of other districts , were ...
... bearings , foliage , grotesque figures , inscriptions , & c . , and the patterns not unfrequently extended over four , nine , twelve , or more , tiles . The MEDIEVAL vessels made in Staffordshire , like those of other districts , were ...
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... bearing two full - length figures in the costume of the Stuarts , the gentleman holding in his hand his hat and feather , and having " petticoat breeches , " tied stockings , and high - heeled boots with ties , and the lady holding a ...
... bearing two full - length figures in the costume of the Stuarts , the gentleman holding in his hand his hat and feather , and having " petticoat breeches , " tied stockings , and high - heeled boots with ties , and the lady holding a ...
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... bearing a swan , a flower , and a spread eagle . The fourth , a two - handled cup , is of the same general form as those with one handle , and is , as will be seen , of elegant shape . These two latter specimens are in the Museum of ...
... bearing a swan , a flower , and a spread eagle . The fourth , a two - handled cup , is of the same general form as those with one handle , and is , as will be seen , of elegant shape . These two latter specimens are in the Museum of ...
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... bearing makers ' names , who are proved to have lived in that reign . The next , here shown , is of the time of James I. or Charles I. , in which reigns there appears to have been a considerable diversity of form , as here shown from ...
... bearing makers ' names , who are proved to have lived in that reign . The next , here shown , is of the time of James I. or Charles I. , in which reigns there appears to have been a considerable diversity of form , as here shown from ...
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