Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 485
except salt-glazed stoneware, and thenearest approach to artistic design was in ale-pots andbellarmines, which were fat-bellied, small-neckedjugs with bearded faces at the top, to caricature theCatholic prelate Bellarmine who died in 1621. By1650 Staffordshire was producing marbled and… … Fig. 295.—A Toft Platter. ORNAMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN the crudity of Tofts work (1670). The great potteriesof Bow, Chelsea, Worcester and Derby were not starteduntil about 1749; that of Plymouth a little later; butthe Bow and Chelsea potteries were consolidated byDuesbury in 1776 with the Derby…
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