LEEDS POTTERY. 53 
The wares manufactured at different periods at these most 
interesting works were : — 
1. Coarse brown and red earthenware, some of it having a 
black glaze, made from the local clay on the first 
establishment of the pottery. 
2. Delft ware, produced only in small quantities, and for a 
short period. 
3. Hard and highly vitrified stoneware, with a strong salt 
glaze. 
4. The famous cream or Queen’s ware. 
5. Black transfer printing on cream ware. 
6. Ware decorated with colour. 
7. Lustre, agate, and tortoise-shell wares. 
8. Black Egyptian ware or black basaltes. 
9. Blue printed ware. 
10, Yellow ware, Rockingham ware, etc. 
11. Figures, busts, etc. 
Fig. 40. Double Twig Basket. Mr. A. Hurst's Collection. 
The famous Queen’s, called after Queen Charlotte, or cream 
coloured ware was the speciality for which the Leeds works 
became universally famed, and in it they successfully competed 
with Wedgwood. It is this kind of ware which is known amongst 
collectors as “ Leeds Ware.” 
In colour, the old Leeds Ware, i.e., the cream coloured earthen¬ 
ware, is of a peculiarly rich tint, usually rather deeper in tone 
than Wedgwood’s Queen’s Ware, and of a slightly yellowish cast. 
It is very light in weight. The body is particularly hue and hard, 
and the glaze of extremely good quality. This glaze was pro¬ 
duced with arsenic, and its use is said to have been so deleterious 
