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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 115

An illustration from Handbook to the collection of British pottery and porcelain, in the Museum of Practical Geology, 1893, leaf 115
of 2li or 24. In aldition to this fine red ware, the Klers are said to havemanufactured a black body, from a mixture of clay and iron-sUjne, which may have been the precuisor ol Wetlgwoudsfamous K;.y[)tiaii ware. (Ij-eat secrecy was maintained in allthe dcitails of niannfacture; it is said, indeed,… … * History of the Staffor.Uhirc rottcrifn, p. 118. ,0G muTisH roiTEiJV and poucelain. Twvfonl W!us supposed to be the first, by pretendint:^ carelessness,to Imve entered the works autl found out the processes em-pl>vod. Eventually Mr. Astbury,* by feigning idiocy, andobtaining employment in tlie…

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