The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every classJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every class
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Pottery, British -- History
_This is so just a Recital of the Evidence given on behalf
of the said Warner, that he challenges the greatest of his
Enemies to detect him of the least Falsehood therein; and if his
Adversaries had been as fair in representing theirs, there would
have been no need of this; for whereas in their printed Papers
they make their Witnesses to affirm the said_ Warner’s _clay was
tried in all Experiments, without any mixture, there was not
above One or Two, but upon cross-Examination at the Tryal, owned
they used either Segg and Hogs dung, or Soap and Gauls with it,
which would have scowered any Cloath better without the said
Clay than with it._
_It may not be amiss likewise to observe that for a whole Year
in which the_ Custom-House _Officers have been so very diligent
in spreading the Fame of the said_ Warner’s _Clay to be the
best_ Fullers-Earth _in_ England, _he hath not been able to
sell the least quantity of it as such, tho’ he has proffered
it to all Men for a very little more than one-Third of what
Fullers-Earth is generally sold for._
The Delft ware here made was of the ordinary kind, same as imported
from Holland, and as that made in various English localities, and,
being without mark, is not to be distinguished from others. Besides
tiles, plates, jugs, mugs, dishes, &c., sack and other wine bottles,
apothecaries’ pill-slabs, wine-bin labels, &c., were made. Some of
these pill-slabs are preserved in the Jermyn Street Museum, as are also
some of the “sack-pots,” both of which may most probably, as well as
the apothecaries’ jars, be ascribed to Lambeth. They are all of Delft
ware, painted with blue, in the same manner as the tiles and other
articles of this ware.
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