Catalogue of specimens illustrative of the composition and manufacture of British pottery and porcelain : from the occupation of Britain by the Romans to the present time / by Sir Henry De La Beche, C.B., director, and Trenham Reeks, curator.

  • Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain)
Date:
1855
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Credit: Catalogue of specimens illustrative of the composition and manufacture of British pottery and porcelain : from the occupation of Britain by the Romans to the present time / by Sir Henry De La Beche, C.B., director, and Trenham Reeks, curator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his fame and fortune until his death, in January 1795, at Etruria (near Newcastle-under-Lyne), where he had U!,W00‘' finally established his works. Mr. Carver, an engraver of Liverpool, having Printing from invented a method of printing, from coppei'-plates, J^n ]}le gia'z6m upon the glaze, Wedgwood, in his earlier days, used to send down cream-ware to Liverpool to be thus printed, the ware being returned to Burslem. A tea service, well authenticated to have been thus sent down from the Bell works in 1767, is described as “ excellent in quality and very fine in embellishment/’* Before Wedgwood established enamelling in colours on his own premises, he used to send his ware to be painted to Mrs. Astbury, in Hob Lane, Burslem. The first sue- Gold-leaf cessful attempt, in the district, at employing gold-leafgilding. for ornamental purposes on the ware, is stated to have been made by Sarah Elkin, then a servant of Mr. Wedg- wood, at Etruria. The method of gilding by means resembling that of water gilding, instead of employing Water-gilding. gold leaf, was subsequently, and prior to 1800, intro- duced by John Hancock.! The introduction of the Cornish clay (Kaolin) and Introduction of China stone, into the Staffordshire potteries, was the and porcejain means of producing a considerable advance in, and granite. extension of, the wares there made. Mr. Jacob War- burton is stated to have been the person to whom that district is most indebted for the introduction of the porcelain manufacture. He, with others, forming a Purchase of company, purchased Champion’s (Cookworthy’s) patent, Coohwortkg's in 17774 Pam' * Hist, of Staffordshire Potteries, p. 192. Carver was in the service of Messrs. Sadler and Green, of Liverpool, and it would appear that they employed Carver to execute the printing. Dr. Shaw, at the same time states, that the first printer of the kind is said to have been Harry Baker, of Hanley, Staffordshire, who obtained the necessary impres- sions from copper-plates borrowed from a bookbinder. The same person, after Messrs. Sadler and Green were much employed in this kind of printing, offered his services to the manufacturers of the district as printer on the glaze, in black, red, and other colours, and soon became fully occupied. Mr. John Robinson quitted the employ of Messrs. Sadler and Green to execute the same kind of printing for Wedgwood, but finally worked for any of the potteries, and also as enameller. f Hancock was then employed by Messrs, Turner, of Lane End. f According to Dr. Shaw (Hist, of Staffordshire Potteries, p. 200), Champion at this time sold his patent to a company of Staffordshire potters, consisting of Messrs. S. Hollins, of Shelton, Anthony Keeling, of Turnstall, John Turner, of Lane End, Jacob Warburton, of Hob Lane, W. Clowes, of Peet Hill, and Charles Bognall, of Shelton. When Cook- worthy’s patent expired, there was great opposition to the extension of it petitioned for H