THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 



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as the cradle before illustrated, is in the Bateman Museum, 

 and is dated 1711, and bears the words 



GOD : SAVE : THE : QUEEN : 1711 : 



the queen alluded to so loyally being, of course, Queen 

 Anne. 



For the purpose of showing that the same general form 

 has obtained to our own time, I here give two other exam- 

 ples, the first one bearing the date of 1750, and the next 

 that of 1819. They are both of the hard brown stoneware 



made at Chesterfield and Nottingham, and, as is not un- 

 common, bear the names of the parties for whom they were 

 made, incised, i.e. scratched into the soft clay with a fine 

 point. 



One of the principal potters in Burslem in the early part 

 of last century was Dr. Thomas Wedgwood, junior (son of 

 Dr. Thomas Wedgwood, also an eminent potter), who pro- 

 duced imitation agate, marble, and other coffee and tea 

 pots, &c., and made a remarkably fine and good white stone 

 ware, beautifully ornamented with raised patterns, produced 

 from the metal or " tough torn" moulds to which I have 

 before alluded. One of the most skilful cutters of these 



