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glass. Dessert services were made of this ware ; the 

 plates were moulded in the form of leaves, and were 

 beautifully ornamented. 



Wedgwood also made toilet vessels, snuff-boxes, and 

 other articles coloured in imitation of precious stones 

 for mounting on metal. The London jewellers, regarding 

 these articles as entirely original, and the production of 

 some new and valuable discovery, appreciated them 

 accordingly, and sold them in considerable quantities. 



Wedgwood's right leg and knee still tormented him. 

 He was often confined to his room, and quite unable to 

 attend to the business of the manufactory. But the 

 work must necessarily go forward, and as he was 

 the managing partner, and the men must be occu- 

 pied in manufacturing the earthenware so much in 

 demand, he was under the necessity of revealing the 

 knowledge of his mixtures and glazes to the principal 

 foreman of the works. Thus the secret of his inven- 

 tions became known, and the production of the green 

 earthenware soon became a general manufacture in the 

 neighbourhood. 



Josiah Spode, afterwards a distinguished potter, was 

 apprenticed in his boyhood to Whieldon and Wedg- 

 wood. In accordance with the low rate of wages which 

 then prevailed he was at first paid 2s. 6d. a week ; and 

 when he became a journeyman, he was paid Vs. a week. 

 The turners, and throwers, and firers, were paid 8s. a 

 week. 



Very few manuscripts are preserved relating to the 



