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Title: Staffordshire pottery and its history
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement), 1872-1943
Subjects: Staffordshire pottery Potters Wedgwood ware
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nce Plots time. The five biggestfactories all make this stoneware, Dr ThomasWedgwood, sen., Moses Marsh, Aaron Shaw,Moses Shaw, Sam. Edge and Richard Wedgwood,the brother of Dr Thomas. Undoubtedly this was the new salt-glazedstoneware. The brown stoneware ascribed in thelist to Dr Thomas Wedgwood coincides exactlywith the drab salt-glazed teapoy by him now inthe South Kensington Museum. It is supposedto have been made by mixing the lightest burn-ing local clay with the fine white sand fromBaddeley Edge or Mow Cop.* The list gives no potworks at all at the Long-ton end of the district, yet then or shortly after-wards Delft ware was probably made at the placecalled Lane Delf, now part of Fenton. Shaw saysthat in 1710 Thomas Heath of Lane Delf wasmaking a strange kind of pottery, and he proceedsto describe a particular dish in such a way as toshow that it was really Delft ware.f There is notrace of Delft ware having been made anywhere * Burton, op. cit., p. 86.tShaw, op. cit.y p. 126. 54
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Salt glaze teapot, drab body, supposed to be by ThomasWedgwood, died 1737. From the Stoke-on-TrentMuseums. To face p. 54 THE SALT-GLAZE POTTERS else in the Potteries, or indeed at any subsequenttime at Lane Delf itself, so that we may fairlyascribe to this solitary experiment of ThomasHeaths the name of the locality.* At this Longton end, soon after 171 o, therewas also made white ware of a greenish type,called Crouch Ware. It was made from clay foundin Derbyshire that bore this name, and survivedas a fairly white ware till Astbury drove it outwith his whiter body. In 1725 Thomas Astbury,the younger, set up his new factory in Fenton,and from this date we may say that the whole ofthe present Pottery area was engaged in the pro-duction of Earthen ware, t In fact all that was wanted to convert the pea-sant pottery of North Staffordshire into a greatbusiness was the stimulus given by the refined handof Elers, and the new demand in the new clubs andcoffee houses. When once improvements in

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