This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...also in Devon, Dorset, and Cornish clay, which was imported in large lots and resold in smaller quantities. The last payment to the Hendra Company (which company is mentioned on page 17) was in 1822. The ware made at Greenfield at that time was mostly the useful kind, such as china dessert services, richly enamelled ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...also in Devon, Dorset, and Cornish clay, which was imported in large lots and resold in smaller quantities. The last payment to the Hendra Company (which company is mentioned on page 17) was in 1822. The ware made at Greenfield at that time was mostly the useful kind, such as china dessert services, richly enamelled and gilt, green glazed ware, the modelling of which was excellent. The moulds are still in existence. A good deal of' black Egyptian (basaltes) was made into tea services. Many unmarked fragments of beautifully shaped teapots, fluted on the lathe, have been found in the older parts of the buildings. They were not generally figured. Biscuit jars in cream ware, fluted on the lathe, of the earliest Greenfield period, have been unearthed. The black ware was very similar in quality to that produced by Mayer, Birch, and other Staffordshire potters. Underglaze painting was also done. A jug of that sort is in the Tunstall Museum. It is lettered and dated thus: (see plate /iv), and was intended to celebrate the wedding of one of the workmen, named Whitehead, whose family have worked at Greenfield for several generations. In the early days of the Breeze regime the Greenfield mills were the only ones at Tunstall for grinding glazes, flint, stone, and colours. When an improved new engine, driven by steam, was erected in 1806, it was considered a great event. Many people from the outskirts of Cheshire came to see it as a wonder, although several others had been previously worked, amongst which may be mentioned the one at the pottery of William Adams at Stoke. The water for the boiler was obtained from a brook some three hundred yards away, on the road to Little Chell. A culvert was made from the brook to a tank under the engine, from which the water was pump...
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