Staffordshire pottery and its historyWedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement)
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Staffordshire pottery and its history
Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement)
Potters -- England; Staffordshire pottery; Wedgwood ware
Lane in 1762 under an agreement with Wedgwood to be paid by him fixed
prices for his ware.[119] In any case Shaw is obviously wrong in calling
these men salt-glaze potters, for makers of salt glaze did not usually
apply it to the baking dishes and chamber pots whose prices were under
discussion; and it is only in common and standard lines that prices can
ever be regulated by a ring. Makers of ornamental salt glaze would have
been the last people to combine, and the only ones known to have been
making salt glaze at this time, Christopher Whitehead and the Baddeleys,
do not appear on this list of Shaw’s at all.
The most notable potters on this list of 1770 were the Warburtons and
the Daniels of Cobridge. When the art of enamelling became localized
at Hot Lane about 1750, John and Ann Warburton were among the most
successful. They were potters of old standing, for a Warburton appears
as a master-potter in the Burslem district in 1710-15. They did most
of the enamelling for Wedgwood in his early days, and their son, Jacob
Warburton (1740-1826), became a potter of great repute, above all on the
Continent where his business was very extensive.[120] He spent many
years travelling abroad and was a strange man among the rough potters
of that day—a Roman Catholic, a great linguist, a famous skater; and
for some reason he was always known as Captain Warburton. He was an
intimate friend of Wedgwood, and in 1771 acted as his arbitrator in his
case against Palmer.[121] When Enoch Booth invented the fluid glaze, the
Warburtons were among the first to take it up, and their cream-coloured
ware, enamelled with all their exceptional artistic skill, is often
confounded with Wedgwood’s best productions.
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