Victoria and Albert Museum— Bow, 57 Oiron faïence, 185 Worcester, 78 Vienna, 197 Vincennes, origin of, 30 Virginia, clay from (Plymouth), 92 “W” as a mark, 71, 79 Walker, Samuel, 140, 165 at Nantgarw, 169 at Swansea, 170 Wall, Dr. John— founder of Worcester, 69 his death, 77 painting by, in Merton College, Oxford, 69 Walpole, Horace, quoted— on Battersea printing, 240 on Chelsea, 33 Wear, cast-iron bridge across (Sunderland mug), 202 Wedgwood, Josiah, 249, 250 art of the potter, views concerning, 265 monument to, at Stoke-on-Trent, 268 opinion of, concerning Richard Champion, 104 opposes Cookworthy and Champion’s patent (Bristol), 97 Wedgwood catalogues, 265 Wedgwood Ware, =249-278= early imitation of jewels, 252 illustrations of, 207, 249, 256, 259, 260, 277 lustre ware, 228 marks of, 269, 270 printed at Liverpool, 240 Queen’s Ware, 253 Sale Prices, 272 Wedgwood & Bentley, marks of, 269 Wedgewood, spurious mark imitating Wedgwood, 270 Welsh ware, Isleworth, 205 Whieldon, Thomas, 251 illustration of Whieldon ware, 251 Spode apprenticed to, 151 White porcelain biscuit (Wedgwood), 257 Willow pattern plate, introduced at— Caughley, 137 Spode, 152 Wilson (Staffordshire), lustre ware, 228 Wolcot, Dr. (“Peter Pindar”), friend of Cookworthy, 92 Wolfe, General, death of, on jug, 214 Wood, Ralph (Burslem), 199 Worcester, =67-90= Billingsley, flower-painter at, 165 characteristics of old, 83 illustrations of, 67, 73, 77, 81 marks, 70, 71, 78, 79 Sale Prices, 85 Wrotham, Kent, 202 Yarmouth, pottery at, 200 Young, W. W., painter, Nantgarw, 170, 171 _Printed in Great Britain by_ UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON * * * * * [Transcriber’s note: the following changes have been made to this text. Frontispiece: Schrieber changed to Schreiber—Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Page 45: Sotherby to Sotheby—Sotheby, May 17, 1920. Plate facing page 76: Wattean to Watteau—Watteau style transfer. Page 108: or to of—bouquets of flowers. Page 143: comparision to comparison—comparison of the dates. Page 281: Sevrès to Sèvres—Chelsea, Dresden, Sèvres marks. Page 286: facfory to factory—establishes the Coalport factory, 139.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chats on English China, by Arthur Hayden