Handbook to the collection of British pottery and porcelain, in the Museum of Practical Geology (1893)
Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain) · London : Printed for H.M. Stationary Office, by Eyre and Spottiswood, sold only at the Museum · leaf 108
uctiona of the district that of Batter Potaappears to have been undertaken at an early date. In 1G61 itwas of sufficic!nt importance to attract the attiiition of (iovern-ment, the potters of Hurslem being th(;n coMij)tlled l)y Act ofParliament to make their pots of a certain size and (|uality.… … 88 BRITISH parrEiiv and porcelain. (G. 1) is represented in Fig. SG. Dr. Plot, in his NaturcaTHistory of Staffordshire, published in 1080, says (p. 108), The butter they buy by the /)r>/, of a long cylindrical fonn, made at Ba rslem in this county oi a certain si^^e,• so as not to weigh above…
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