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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1913 



IVERPOOL ware is unique and it holds a The credit of this invention is claimed by both Worcester 



distinctive place in the world of collectors' and Liverpool, the evidence being in favor of the latter. 



interests. It is cream white, showing pic- 

 tured exteriors, and consists principally of 

 pitchers, often known as Watermelon pitch- 

 ers, and mugs, although plates are some- 

 times found and occasionally other pieces. Singularly 

 enough, few, if any pieces are to be found, except in sea- 

 port towns. One reason for this is that the owners value 



The earliest pot works were founded at Shaw's Brow, a 

 rising piece of ground in Liverpool, where the first pottery 

 was made by a man by the name of Shaw. Some of his 

 work is still in existence. As years went on, the manufac- 

 ture increased to such an extent that the whole ground was 

 covered with potters' banks, and the houses of the men who 

 were employed at the potteries. So popular did it become 



them so highly that they can rarely if ever be induced to that in the latter part of the eighteenth century, there were 

 part even with one piece, feeling that they cannot be matched, three hundred and seventy-four persons connected with this 



It is the first pottery with 

 American printed designs that 

 was ever brought into this 

 country, and many of its deco- 

 rative features, more especially 

 after the Revolution, were of 

 prominent men or important 

 events which occurred in his- 

 tory. It was first made in the 

 latter part of the seventeenth, 

 and the early part of the 

 eighteenth century, this fact 

 being verified by a Delft plaque 

 which is still in existence, bear- 

 ing the very old date of 1716. 



work at this one place. 



For nearly half a century, 

 after transfer printing on 

 earthenware had been invented, 

 the dealers turned their atten- 

 tion to the American market, 

 and the sale was so extensive 

 that there were few houses 

 along the seaport towns which 

 did not contain pieces of this 

 ware, decorated often with 

 ships which had been owned by 

 merchants of these places. 



The Liverpool Delft was 

 the first to be made. It 



"Farmers' Arms" pitcher 



Washington and Martha Washington drinking tea 



"Butchers' Arms" pitcher 



