Bristol--Delft Ware--Redcliffe Backs--Richard Frank--Ring--Flower--Bristol China--William Cookworthy--Richard Champion--Transference of Plymouth Works--Extension of Patent--Wedgwood’s Opposition--“Case” of the Manufacturers--Champion’s Specification--Champion’s Productions--Edmund Burke--Bristol Vases--Figures--Marks--Bristol Earthenware--Temple Backs--Potters’ Songs--Temple and St. Thomas’s Street Works--Temple Gate--Wilder Street--Bristol Glass--William Edkins--Salt Glaze--Brislington--Crews Hole--Westbury--Easton--Weston-super-Mare--Matthews’s Royal Pottery--Poole--Architectural Pottery Company--Bourne Valley--Branksea--Kinson 350 CHAPTER XII. Nottingham Ware--List of Potters--Nottingham Mugs--Bears-- Lowesby--Coalville--Ibstock--Tamworth--Wilnecote--Coventry-- Nuneaton--Broxburne--Stamford--Roman Kiln--Blasfield’s Terra-Cotta--Bolingbroke--Wisbech--Lowestoft and Gunton-- Delft Ware--Lowestoft China--Stowmarket--Ipswich--Ebbisham-- Wrotham--Yarmouth--Cossey--Cadborough--Rye--Gestingthorpe-- Holkham--Nuneham Courtney--Marsh Balden--Horspath--Shotover 415 CHAPTER XIII. York--Place’s Ware--Hirstwood’s China--Layerthorpe-- Osmotherley--Hull--Belle Vue Pottery--Stepney Lane Pottery--Leeds--Hartley, Greens, & Co.--Britton and Sons-- Leathley Lane Pottery--Castleford Pottery--Eagle Pottery--Pontefract--Ferrybridge--Knottingley--Ralph Wedgwood--Swinton Pottery--Rockingham Ware--Cadogan Pots--Rockingham China--Brameld & Co.--Dale’s Patent--Baguley’s Productions--Mexborough--Rock Pottery--Mexborough Pottery--Mexborough Old Pottery-- Rawmarsh--Rotherham--North Field Pottery--Holmes’s Pottery--Don Pottery--Denaby--Kilnhurst--Wath-upon-Dearne-- Newhill Pottery--Wakefield--Potovens--Yearsley--Wortley-- Healey--Colsterdale 460 CERAMIC ART IN GREAT BRITAIN. CHAPTER I. Practice of the Art in England--The Celtic Period--Classes of Vessels--Cinerary Urns--Food Vessels, Drinking Cups, &c.--Modes of Ornamentation--Food Vessels--Immolation Urns or Incense Cups--Handled Cups. The history of the ceramic art in our own country is one of intense interest and of paramount importance. I open my present work, which I intend to devote to its consideration, with this assertion, and before it is done I hope I shall have proved its truth.