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agate ware

agate ware  

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*Pottery made to resemble agate. Different coloured clays were combined to imitate the veining of the hard stone. It was made by the Romans and revived in the 18th century in Staffordshire.
David Rhodes

David Rhodes  

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(d 1777).English pottery and porcelain enameller. In about 1760 he established a workshop in Leeds with Jasper Robinson, where they enamelled cream-coloured earthenware from the Leeds Pottery and ...
pastille burner

pastille burner  

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The term for a perfume burner, in which a small pellet is burned to remove unpleasant odours. In Staffordshire in the mid-19th century they were usually in the form of a cottage in pottery or ...
slip

slip  

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[Ma]A fluid mixture of clay and water (with or without added colourants) into which a vessel is dipped to produce a fine smooth surface.
slipware

slipware  

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A type of pottery decorated with slip before firing. The earliest English examples were made at Wrotham in Kent in the early 17th century and some of the most decorative by Thomas Toft in ...
stone china

stone china  

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A vitreous, extremely strong ceramic body, usually greyish in colour and opaque. Invented in 1800 by John and William Turner, it was particularly suitable for domestic dinner ware. It was also ...
stoneware

stoneware  

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[De]Pottery fired to a high temperature, usually over 1200°C, at which the fabric of the vessel vitrifies. Stoneware seems to have been produced first at Siegburg in Germany about 1200 ad.
toby jug

toby jug  

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A tankard in the form of a seated toper, wearing a tricorn hat (forming the cover) and holding a jug of ale, based on the figure ‘Toby Philpot’, who appeared in an engraving to illustrate the song ...
Welsh ware

Welsh ware  

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Trade name for a type of shallow earthenware meat dish with feathered slip decoration. It was made in English rather than Welsh potteries, notably at Isleworth Pottery, in Staffordshire and ...
Whitehaven

Whitehaven  

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English centre of pottery production. The clays of the Cumbrian coastal town of Whitehaven were first used for the commercial production of pottery in 1698, when a pipe factory was ...

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