The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 2 (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 2 (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
Seth Pennington, the youngest of the three brothers, it appears, had
his pot-works in that nest of potters, Shaw’s Brow. His factories were
very large, extending as far as Clayton Street, and were conducted
with much spirit. At these works, Seth Pennington, besides the
ordinary classes of earthenware then in use, and which he produced
in large quantities both for home consumption and for exportation,
made a remarkably fine kind of ware that successfully competed, for
vases and beakers, with the oriental, both in its colour, its glaze,
and its decoration. He also produced many remarkably large and fine
punch-bowls both in Delft ware, in fine earthenware, and, latterly, in
china. The largest size bowl I have met with was made by Pennington,
at these works, and is here shown. This fine bowl, which is 20½ inches
in diameter and 9 inches in height, is painted in blue on the usual
white ground. Outside it is decorated with a landscape with two bridges
in the foreground, on which men are standing to fish, trees, houses,
church, &c., &c. Inside the upper part of the bowl is decorated with
a series of six trophies, composed of flags, swords, cannons, drums,
trumpets, spears, &c., divided from each other by different kinds
of shot, viz., chain, crescent, arrow or triangle shell with fusee
burning, cross or bar, and grape. In the centre, and filling up the
inside of the bowl, with the exception of the border, is a group of
ships and boats on the water, with the inscription beneath it--
Success to the Africa Trade,
George Dickinson.
[Illustration: Figs. 26 to 30.]
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