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
“_1691 March 15._ _To make a blew porcellane Cley to be
turn’d into vessells or to spot and inlay pots of any other
Porcellane._--Take fiue pounds of Cley, fiue pound of ye fine
White Earth, one pound of zaffer fine ground-dryd and done
through a midling hair Sieve, mingle & tread. If it be wetted
with the white water ’twill be the brighter.
“_To make another blew porc: Cley more bright._--Take six pound
of fine White Earth, four pound of Cley, one pound of zaffer
ground fine dry’d & sifted through ye midling hair sieve,
mingle, and tread them w^{th} the white water.
“_1692 July 12._ _To make a blew porcell: Cley of inlaying or to
turn into vessells._--Take fine white two ounces. White ꝑ. Cyp’s
sieve one ounce. Best Smalt one ounce. Cley three ounces.
“_1693 9ber 14._ _To make transparent porcellane or China
Cley._--Take fine white Earth thirty pounds. Cley sifted twenty
pounds. Mingle & tread.
“_To make another transparent porcellane or China Cley._--Take
fine white Earth thirty pounds, Cley sifted fifteen pounds.
Mingle and tread.”
Other recipes are:
“Light grey Cley to endure boiling water;” “ffiner light grey
Cley for ye like vses;” “Mouse coloured cley to endure boiling
water;” “ffiner mouse coloured Cley for ye same vse;” “1698
Apr: 6. To make Number Sixteen;” “The best White Cley to make
Gor: Cans, or dishes to endure boiling water;” “To make ye
White Earth;” “To make the White Earth in larger quantity at
one time;” “To make the Dark Earth;” “To make fine White;” “To
make fine Dark;” “To make calcin’d Sand;” “To make white ꝑ.
Cyprus;” “To make ye Black Earth;” “A fine brown colour w^{th}
out Grinding;” “To make a fine bright and strong brown;” “To
make ye brightest brown colour;” “Cley to burn brown;” “for
marbling stone-pots;” “White to marble ston pots;” “Another
grey for marbl: stone pots;” “To make a fine white porcellane
Cley to be burnt w^{th} Salt fitt only for things of ornament;”
“Grey Cley for ye like vse;” “A darker Cley for ye same vse;” “A
Mouse colour’d Porcellane w^{th} white specks;” “A bright Mouse
colourd Cley to endure boiling water;” “A fine porcellane Cley
fit for deep dishes w^{th} out handles to be burnt w^{th} out
glasse in the strongest fire that may serve to perfect ye China
ware. ℞ Cley twenty pounds. ffine White twenty pounds. fine
Black Earth two pounds. White ꝑ Cyprus sieve six pounds. Mingle
& tread;” “The best Dark Earth;” “The fine grinding of the Dark
Earth;” “The best browne glasse for white browne pots;” “To
make the Dark Earth;” “A dark colour’d Cley for marbled dishes
and teapots to endure boiling water;” “The Mouse colour’d Cley
to endure boiling water;” “Another lesse red Cley;” “To make a
grey porcellane Clay hardy & fit for Garden Potts, Teapots &c.;”
“Another lighter Grey Cley;” “To make a deep red Cley of the
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