Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 104
he potter John Astbury worked for the Elers, and afterfinding out as many secrets as he could from them, he leftthem and started a pottery of his own in Staffordshire. Heused a wider range of clays and colours than those used bythe Elers, and had more variety also in the decoration of his POTTERY… … Fig- 75.—White Salt-glazed Ware of Staffordshire. (S. K. M.) colour; the material was thin and well fabricated. Besidesthe ordinary shaped jugs, puzzle-jugs and mugs in theshape of bears with movable heads were made, that wereused in the beerhouses of the last century. Bristol and Liverpool were…
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