CHAPTEE III. 



PRODUCTIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. 

 DISHES OF TOFT, SANS, AND TAYLOR. TYGS. THE 

 BUTTER TRADE. BUTTER-POTS. CLAYS. DR. PLOT'S AC- 

 COUNT. COMBED WARE. BELLARMINES AND ALE-POTS. 



WHITE STONE WARE. " DRINKING STONE POTTES." EARLY 



PATENTS. SALT GLAZING. CROUCH WARE. THE BROTHERS 

 ELER, FROM NUREMBERG ; THEIR SECRET DISCOVERED BY 

 ASTBURY AND TWYFORD. 



IN the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the fictile pro- 

 ductions of Staffordshire were, like those of other districts 

 in which the potter's craft was followed, confined to the 

 manufacture of the common vessels for everyday use though 

 but few were used, for wooden trenchers and bowls, pewter- 

 plates and dishes, black-jacks of leather, and metal flagons, 

 &c., almost usurped their place. Large coarse dishes, tygs ot 

 various forms, with one, two, three, four, or more handles, 

 pitchers, and other vessels, were however made, and are not 

 unfrequently to be met with in the hands of collectors. In 

 the seventeenth century these large coarse dishes and other 

 vessels were made at Burslem and the surrounding places. 

 The material is a coarse reddish or buff-coloured clay, and 

 the ornaments are laid on in different coloured clays, and 

 the whole is then glazed thickly over. One of these large 

 dishes, now in the Museum of Practical Geology, is shown 

 on the accompanying engraving. The body is of buff- 

 coloured clay, with the ornaments laid on in relief in light 

 and dark brown. The border is trellised, and in the centre is 

 a lion rampant, crowned. On the rim beneath the lion is the 



