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
Of the productions of the works Dr. Kendrick has got together a
number of examples, which he has deposited in the Warrington museum.
The wares produced were an ordinary quality of white ware; blue and
white printed goods, and common painted goods; as well as an inferior
description of black-jasper ware, and both gold and silver lustre.
Besides these, a china ware is said to have been made to some extent,
but of this, although the matter is generally believed, there is,
perhaps, some little doubt. Among the examples in the Museum is a black
teapot of somewhat curious character. It is of a hard, but somewhat
inferior black ware, and is ornamented with raised borders and groups
of figures--some of the borders, the figures, and the swan knob of the
lid, being surface-painted in yellow, red, &c. The lid is attached by
a hinge. Another curious piece is a “tobacco-jar, comprising within
itself a drinking mug and a candlestick,” and also a small upright jar,
capable of holding exactly half-an-ounce of tea,--the quantity, we are
told, which was served out to each visitor to the tea-gardens of that
day. The china ware attributed to these works is somewhat curious.
It is of a kind of creamy colour, and of inferior quality, and is
ornamented with raised borders, &c, and with groups of figures in blue.
In general appearance it is more like earthenware than porcelain. Among
the examples, stated by Dr. Kendrick to have been made at Warrington,
is a lantern of Delft ware, ornamented with flowers in blue. There
are, however, grave doubts as to this having been made in this
locality. No mark is known. This distinction is believed to have been
omitted in consequence of the jealous dislike of the Americans of that
day to anything emanating from the mother country.
* * * * *
_Warrington Pottery._--These works, in a locality where older ones
had long existed, were established in 1850 in Dallman Lane, by the
late Mr. John Welsby, who manufactured stoneware, Rockingham and black
tea-pots, coarse red ware, terra cotta chimney tops (the construction
of the “Dallman Chimney Pot” being very effectual for preventing
smoky chimneys), ornamental garden vases, flower-pots, pancheons,
&c. On his death, in 1863, the works passed into the hands of Mr.
Thomas Grace, who, in 1871, removed them to their present site, on the
Winwick Road. Mr. Grace’s productions consist of plain black ware of
various descriptions, chimney tops, and plain and fancy garden vases,
flower-pots, &c., which he supplies largely to the home markets. Most
of the goods are made from clays found on the spot, and those of Arpley
Moor, a mile or two distant from the works.
SUTTON.
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