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tinned also to make his green glazed ware, his tortoise- 

 shell and tinted snuff-boxes, his perforated dessert plates, 

 which soon obtained considerable celebrity. He in- 

 troduced his white medallions, in which he eventually 

 achieved great celebrity, and began to ornament his 

 ware with flowers and foliage, sometimes gilt and some- 

 times coloured, always striving at something new and 

 original. 



He prided himself upon his own specially-designed 

 tea-services, in which the different vessels were formed 

 and coloured to represent joints and vegetables, just 

 as Bernard Palissy had done in France at an early 

 period of his earthenware manufacture. These novelties 

 proved so attractive that they had a very large sale ; 

 and the other pottery manufacturers always watching 

 with interest the new designs of Wedgwood at once 

 imitated them, and they very soon led to a large in- 

 crease in the trade of the district. Wedgwood also 

 began his works in relief, such as storks fishing, or 

 ducks casting water into a fountain from their bills, 

 and many other devices. 



His connection and reputation rapidly increasing, he 

 found it necessary to increase his establishment, and to 

 employ additional hands. He hired some new works 

 and furnaces not far from the Ivy House, on the site now 

 partly occupied by the Wedgwood Institute. As his 

 health improved, he was able to devote himself more 

 zealously to his rapidly-growing enterprises. The land- 

 lord of his new premises was Mr. John Bourne, and 



