8o CRICH WARE. 



passage, some three miles in length, connecting Crich with 

 Dethick ! 



Fifteen excellent photographs help to explain the nature of 

 the pottery, a description of which, however, space does not 

 admit in this notice. Of those here illustrated, fig. i is dated 

 1 717, and is a posset pot from the collection of Mr. H. T. 

 Wake, Fritchley. Fig. 2 is another posset pot, height 9 in., 

 diameter 9I in., date 1739, with a fine lustrous glaze. Fig. 3, 

 another posset pot, owned by a Crich family, is glazed, dated 

 1777, and has remains of the initials T. H. on the spout. 

 Fig. 4 represents a punch bowl, marked " John Hogg and Sarah 

 his wife, November i6th, 1732." It is well glazed. 



Fig. 4. — Punch Bowl of Crich Ware. 1732. 



The specimens illustrated are, with the exception of that 

 in fig. I, owned by Mr. Micah Salt. There are many old 

 potteries in our county ; does nobody know their history and 

 associations? I am sure the Editor would be glad of contri- 

 butions on this subject, and the feeling should be shared by 

 many others. 



It is satisfactory from our point of view, if not from that 

 of Crich, to think that the decadence of the Crich potter's art 

 was owing to " the overwhelming competition of the Stafford- 

 shire potteries," and not to State-aided " dumping " from be- 

 yond the seas, which has proved the death of another famous 

 Derbyshire industry, i.e., lead-mining. 



