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Successful History of English Pottery

Potterylight-colored slip to a dark body, was
We use the pottery products almostpracticed in north Devonshire and other
everyday in our life. But there are fewplaces.
people who know the history of theJohn Astbury and Thomas Whieldon of
pottery and porcelain. Here we will lookStaffordshire were the foremost potters
into the difference of the pottery andin the middle of the eighteenth century,
the porcelain and try to understand theand their output comprised wares of all
some of the different aspects of thethe types that were then known.
pottery and porcelain.In particular, Whieldon's name is linked
Pottery is defined as earthenware andwith wares with pale-colored transparent
includes Faience, or Majolica, creamglazes including early versions of the
ware and, according to many authorities,famous Toby Jug, and Ralph Wood and his
a near-porcelain variety calledson, also named Ralph, made similar
stoneware. It is the commoner type oftypes.
chinaware; the features that place itAstbury is noted for pieces made from
apart from porcelain are that it isred clay, either engine-turned on a
opaque, and that the glaze does notlathe or with white clay ornaments in
combine with the paste, or clay body.relief. These two men led the way to the
The origins of the making of pottery areperfecting of lead-glazed pottery, a
lost in antiquity, and date from whenstep that was the achievement of Josiah
Primitive Man found that the heat of aWedgwood. Wedgwood was a good practical
fire would harden clay.potter, he had been for a few years in
So far as the modern collector ispartnership with Whieldon, but was a
concerned little is available that wasbetter business man, and his
made before the sixteenth century,cream-colored lead-glazed earthenware,
although a considerable number ofknown from 1765 as Queen's Ware, was so
earlier examples can be studied insuccessful that it competed with
museums. They are seen to be of simpleporcelain, and was imitated not only by
shapes, mostly in the form of jugs;other English makers but also all over
sometimes with decorative patterns cutthe Continent of Europe.
or impressed into the red or buff clay;The closest imitator in England was the
with patterns rubbed on or dribbled infactory at Leeds, Yorkshire, which
wet clay (slip) of a contrasting colourapproached the high quality of
or with designs stamped on pads of clayWedgwood's products, but often used
stuck on the article. Many are coloredoriginal patterns. His own men in
with transparent glazes made from lead,Staffordshire decorated much of Wedgwood
in shades of yellow, brown or green. Thecreamware, or at a workshop he had for a
shapes used varied from place to placetime in London at Chelsea, but a
and from century to century, and it isquantity was sent to Liverpool to be
not always possible to name where orornamented by a newly invented process.
when a piece was made. Kilns withThis was by means of engravings printed
fragments of broken ware have beenon paper and transferred to the china
excavated, and these are a guide.article; quick, cheap and effective, it
English potterywas typical of Wedgwood to test the
The type of pottery described in thepossibilities of something as novel and
previous chapter continued to be made inpromising. For the collector it is
all parts of England throughout thereassuring to know that the majority of
seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenthWedgwood ware is marked.
centuries, and the so-called studioSome of the types of pottery could be
potters are still making much. Among thestudied in the museums. The pottery
more important later centers that havecomes in different shapes and sizes and
been identified with certainty, are:they are decorated in different ways and
London (known as Metropolitan Ware);styles. Pottery making became popular
Wrotham, Kent; and Staffordshire, wherefrom the seventeenth century and
the names of Toft, Simpson and Malkincontinued till the eighteenth and
are the best known. A further technique,nineteenth century in England. These
known as sgraffito and consisting ofactivities were located in different
decoration incised through a coating ofplaces of England.



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