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YORKSHIRE POTTERIES, ETC. 
to the workmen, that they usually became hopelessly crippled after 
four or five years exposure to its effects. Wherever this glaze 
runs into crevices it assumes a peculiar greenish hue. The more 
modern ware lacks this green tinge, it is much heavier, and has 
quite a different character of body, which is appreciable to the 
touch, the glaze is more glassy, white, and thickly coated. 
Fig. 41. Centre Piece or Epergne. Y r ork Museum Collection. 
In this beautiful ware many and varied objects were made, such 
as large cisterns, magnificent centre-pieces (epergnes), some ol 
these with perforated hanging baskets for sweetmeats, etc. ; chest¬ 
nut baskets, cockle bowls, butter dishes, cruet stands, candlesticks, 
twig fruit baskets in which the “twigs” or “withies” are really 
composed of clay in long or short strips as occasion required, and 
then twisted and formed into shape ; melon tureens, in the form of 
a melon resting on a leaf; soup tureens, the handles being formed 
