CONTENTS, 



THE EAELY POTTERIES OE STAFFORDSHIRE. 

 CHAPTER I. 



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Introductory. Gradual Progress of the Art in the District. The Celtic 

 Period. Cinerary Urns. Drinking-cups. Food- vessels. Incense- 

 cups 1 



CHAPTER II. 



The Romano -British Period. Varieties of Vessels. Anglo-Saxon 

 Period. Cinerary Urns. Domestic Vessels. Norman Period. 

 Pitchers and other Vessels discovered in Derbyshire. Pavement 

 Tiles. Medieval Pottery 13 



CHAPTER HI. 



Productions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Dishes of 

 Toft, Sans, and Taylor. Tygs. The Butter Trade. Butter-pots. 

 Clays. Dr. Plot's Account. 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 . . 22 



CHAPTER IV. 



Manufacture of Tobacco-pipes. Chronological Series of Examples. 

 Tiles for Garden Knots. The Wedgwoods. John Wedgwood. 

 Puzzle Jugs. Earthenware Cradle. Delft Ware. English Delft 

 Ware. Universality of Blue in Pottery. Embossed Stone Ware. 

 Discovery of the Use of Flint, by Astbury. Patents for Grinding 

 Flint. Patent for Damasking, &c. Ealph Shaw. Litigation with 

 other Potters. Posset Pots. Dr. Thomas Wedgwood, Junior. 

 Ralph Wood 4(3 



