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Successful History of English Pottery

Potterysgraffito and consisting of decoration
incised through a coating of light-colored
We use the pottery products almost everydayslip to a dark body, was practiced in north
in our life. But there are few people whoDevonshire  and  other  places.
know the history of the pottery and
porcelain. Here we will look into theJohn Astbury and Thomas Whieldon of
difference of the pottery and the porcelainStaffordshire were the foremost potters in
and try to understand the some of thethe middle of the eighteenth century, and
different aspects of the pottery andtheir output comprised wares of all the types
porcelain.that  were  then  known.
Pottery is defined as earthenware andIn particular, Whieldon's name is linked with
includes Faience, or Majolica, cream warewares with pale-colored transparent glazes
and, according to many authorities, aincluding early versions of the famous Toby
near-porcelain variety called stoneware. ItJug, and Ralph Wood and his son, also named
is the commoner type of chinaware; theRalph,  made  similar  types.
features that place it apart from porcelain
are that it is opaque, and that the glazeAstbury is noted for pieces made from red
does not combine with the paste, or clayclay, either engine-turned on a lathe or with
body.white clay ornaments in relief. These two men
led the way to the perfecting of lead-glazed
The origins of the making of pottery are lostpottery, a step that was the achievement of
in antiquity, and date from when PrimitiveJosiah Wedgwood. Wedgwood was a good
Man found that the heat of a fire wouldpractical potter, he had been for a few years
harden  clay.in partnership with Whieldon, but was a
better business man, and his cream-colored
So far as the modern collector is concernedlead-glazed earthenware, known from 1765 as
little is available that was made before theQueen's Ware, was so successful that it
sixteenth century, although a considerablecompeted with porcelain, and was imitated not
number of earlier examples can be studied inonly by other English makers but also all
museums. They are seen to be of simpleover  the  Continent  of  Europe.
shapes, mostly in the form of jugs; sometimes
with decorative patterns cut or impressedThe closest imitator in England was the
into the red or buff clay; with patternsfactory at Leeds, Yorkshire, which approached
rubbed on or dribbled in wet clay (slip) of athe high quality of Wedgwood's products, but
contrasting colour or with designs stamped onoften used original patterns. His own men in
pads of clay stuck on the article. Many areStaffordshire decorated much of Wedgwood
colored with transparent glazes made fromcreamware, or at a workshop he had for a time
lead, in shades of yellow, brown or green.in London at Chelsea, but a quantity was sent
The shapes used varied from place to placeto Liverpool to be ornamented by a newly
and from century to century, and it is notinvented process. This was by means of
always possible to name where or when a pieceengravings printed on paper and transferred
was made. Kilns with fragments of broken wareto the china article; quick, cheap and
have  been  excavated, and these are a guide.effective, it was typical of Wedgwood to test
the possibilities of something as novel and
English  potterypromising. For the collector it is reassuring
to know that the majority of Wedgwood ware is
The type of pottery described in the previousmarked.
chapter continued to be made in all parts of
England throughout the seventeenth,Some of the types of pottery could be studied
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and thein the museums. The pottery comes in
so-called studio potters are still makingdifferent shapes and sizes and they are
much. Among the more important later centersdecorated in different ways and styles.
that have been identified with certainty,Pottery making became popular from the
are: London (known as Metropolitan Ware);seventeenth century and continued till the
Wrotham, Kent; and Staffordshire, where theeighteenth and nineteenth century in England.
names of Toft, Simpson and Malkin are theThese activities were located in different
best known. A further technique, known asplaces of England.



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