382 THE WEDGWOODS. 



lections, and collectors will find in the Jermyn Street 

 Museum, London, and in Mr. Mayer's museum, Liverpool, 

 excellent and characteristic specimens. 



The mark on the china is the simple name 



WEDGWOOD 



in small capital letters, printed on the bottom in red or blue 

 colour. 



Some of the china is painted, and other examples which I 

 have seen are printed in blue. The example in the Jermyn 

 Street Museum is decorated with flowers and humming- 

 birds in bright oriental colouring, and is well gilt. 



" Stone china" was also at one time, to some little extent, 

 made at Etruria, examples of which are now rare. It ceased 

 to be made about the year 1825. It was remarkably fine in 

 body, and its decoration exceedingly good. 



In 1815, on the 15th of January, Mrs. Wedgwood, widow 

 of the great Josiah, died at Parkfield, in the eighty-first 

 year of her age, and was, a few days later, buried in the 

 parish church of Stoke-upon-Trent, near her husband. On 

 the north wall of the chancel of that church, close by the 

 monument of her husband, engraved on page 359, is a 

 Gothic memorial tablet of plain and very poor design, re- 

 cording her death. It bears the following inscription : 



Sacred to the memory of 



SAKAH, 

 Widow of Josiah Wedgwood, 



of Etruria, 



Born August the 18th, 1734. 

 Died January the 15th, 1815. 



The productions of the firm at this time and, indeed, 

 through each successive change in the proprietary down 

 to the present time were, as they had been in the time 

 of the first Josiah, divided between the "useful" and the 

 "ornamented." The "useful" consisting of services of 

 every kind in fine earthenware, and in all the varieties 

 of bodies hitherto introduced, to which additional patterns 



