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have been one ; and instead of an exportation to all quarters of the 

 world, a few pretty things would have been made for the amuse- 

 ment of the people of fashion in England It is upon these 



principles, and these only, that he has acted in this business." 



A little further on, still speaking of " stone ware, Queen's 

 ware, or porcelain," Wedgwood says 



"It is well known that manufacturers of this kind can only 

 support their credit by continual improvements. It is also well 

 known that there is a competition in these improvements in all 

 parts of Europe, In the last century Burslem, and some other 

 villages in Staffordshire, were famous for making milk-pans and 

 butter-pots, and by a succession of improvements the manufactory 

 in that neighbourhood has gradually increased in the variety, the 

 quality, and the quantity of its productions, so as to furnish, besides 

 the home consumption, an annual export of useful and ornamental 

 wares, nearly to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds ; but 

 during all this progress it has had the free range of the country for 

 materials to work upon, to the great advantage of many landowners 

 and of navigators. Queen's ware has already several of the proper- 

 ties of porcelain, but is yet capable of receiving many essential 

 improvements. The public have for some time required and 

 expected them. Innumerable experiments have been made for this 

 purpose," &c. 



Of the early " Queen's Ware," a specimen, authenticated 



as being made at the " Bell Works," is preserved in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, having previously formed a 

 part of the collection of Mr. Enoch Wood a collection illus- 

 trative of the staple Staffordshire manufacture, which ought 



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