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beginning of this century. The bard paste, sometimes assigned 
to Lowestoft, seems to be mostly oriental china. 
The range of cases along the Western Wall, numbered XXXV. 
to XXXIX., contains in the upper part a large collection of 
Modern Staffordshire ware, including some beautiful specimens 
from the Exhibition of 1851, by Copeland and Garrett, Minton, 
and other makers. The series is continued in an adjacent 
Pedestal Case, No. 62, where will be found some exceptionally fine 
examples of the productions of the Staffordshire potteries, from 
the Great Exhibition, illustrating the condition of our Ceramic 
art nearly half a century ago. On the upper shelves of the 
Wall Cases numbered XXXIX. to XLIV. are exhibited some 
beautiful examples of modern Majolica ware, by Messrs. Maw 
and Co., of the Benthall Works, near Broseley, in Shropshire. 
With these are placed some admirable specimens of the various 
ornamental wares made at the Lambeth works by Sir Henry 
Doulton, and including examples of the decorative stone-wara 
which has become so famous as Doulton ware. Near the- 
Lambeth ware are some excellent examples of the terra-cotta 
made at Watcombe, near Torquay. 
The lower division of the range of Wall Cases XXXV. to 
XXXIX. is occupied mainly by the productions of the Yorkshire 
\ potteries . Here the cream- ware of Leeds is conspicuous, but 
there are also examples of the Don, Castleford, and Ferrybridge 
works. Attention should be directed to the specimen of Place’s 
ivare, made at the Manor House at York, and presented by Sir 
Wollaston Franks. Some good examples of Liverpool pottery 
are also exhibited, including some very large punch-bowls in 
blue-painted delft ware, some of which are placed, on account o£ 
their size, on the top, and others on the bottom shelves. The 
shelf below the Leeds and Liverpool ware contains a miscel- 
laneous collection of old English mugs, many of which are 
interesting for the quaint mottoes they bear, or for the historical 
events which they commemorate. Below these are examples of 
the pottery of Fulham, Mortlake, Isle worth, Lambeth, and 
Vauxhall ; whilst on the bottom of the Cases is a fine display of 
Delft ware. The characteristic of true delft is that, however 
coarse the body may be, the surface is coated with a fine dense- 
white glaze, rendered opaque by the presence of oxide of tin,, 
and upon this enamelled ground designs may be painted in 
colour, usually in cobalt-blue. Many of the specimens here 
exhibited bear early dates, such as the blue-painted mug dated 
1631 ; the sack-pot, 1646 ; the white-wine jug, 1647 ; the claret- 
pot, 1662 ; and the candlestick, with arms of the Fishmongers’ 
Company, dated 1648. The most characteristic pieces are the 
wine-jugs, the pill-slabs, the caudle-cups, the puzzle-pots, and 
the punch-bowls. Some were made at Lambeth, and others 
probably at Bristol and Liverpool ; whilst a few may be 
imported pieces from Holland. A fine series of delft dishes, 
coarsely painted with portraits of English kings and queens, 
