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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... excellent examples have been found in Staffordshire , and these were , without doubt , made on the spot . They are , therefore , the very earliest examples which can be produced of Staffordshire pottery , and date back to the time when ...
... excellent examples have been found in Staffordshire , and these were , without doubt , made on the spot . They are , therefore , the very earliest examples which can be produced of Staffordshire pottery , and date back to the time when ...
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... on in different clays . Excellent examples of this period may be seen in various collections , and are well worthy of extended notice . CHAPTER III . - PRODUCTIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH. THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE . 21.
... on in different clays . Excellent examples of this period may be seen in various collections , and are well worthy of extended notice . CHAPTER III . - PRODUCTIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH. THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE . 21.
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... excellent glaze . The fact was detailed to Mr. Palmer , potter , of Bagnall , who availed himself of the occurrence , and told other potters . At the small manufactories in Holden Lane ( Adams's ) , Green Head , and Brownhills ...
... excellent glaze . The fact was detailed to Mr. Palmer , potter , of Bagnall , who availed himself of the occurrence , and told other potters . At the small manufactories in Holden Lane ( Adams's ) , Green Head , and Brownhills ...
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... excellent designs . They taste , and their productims mas to be occasionally mista 16 726 Mi Ba the red Hal < -35 Town of Facial feliga be down . The me da pobeda eeedingly good the greater and sign of the fine black ladies ipid and ...
... excellent designs . They taste , and their productims mas to be occasionally mista 16 726 Mi Ba the red Hal < -35 Town of Facial feliga be down . The me da pobeda eeedingly good the greater and sign of the fine black ladies ipid and ...
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... excellent designs . They were men of much skill and taste , and their productions so closely resemble those of Japan as to be occasionally mistaken for them . An example , C from the Museum of Practical Geology , is here shown . The ...
... excellent designs . They were men of much skill and taste , and their productions so closely resemble those of Japan as to be occasionally mistaken for them . An example , C from the Museum of Practical Geology , is here shown . The ...
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