ROCKINGHAM OR SWINTON POTTERY. 89 
Works. Many beautiful and valuable pieces were made here 
both in earthenware and in porcelain. 
The famous “Brown China” or Rockingham Ware which has 
been copied, but never quite successfully, by almost every manu¬ 
factory in the kingdom, was first made here late in the 18th 
century. This particular ware is of a fine reddish brown or 
chocolate colour, and is very smooth and beautiful. The body 
is of fine, hard and compact white earthenware, and the brown 
glaze as made by the Bramelds, by which the peculiar shaded and 
streaky effect was produced, is as fine as it is possible to conceive, 
Fig. 84. Cadogan Coffee Pot. York Museum Collection. 
and the goods required to be “dipped” and passed through the 
firing no fewer than three times before it was considered to be 
perfect. This is the glaze the recipe for which is in the hands of 
Mr. Bowman Heald. In its preparation great care is necessary 
in the selection of the materials, only the very best and purest 
being used, indeed, when made originally by the Bramelds, they 
went so far as to use distilled water in the mixings. 
Of the many articles made in this charming ware, perhaps 
the most famous is the curious coffee pot without any lid, and 
filled from an opening in the bottom of the piece, known as the 
“ Cadogan Pot." This curious piece was formed on the model of 
an example of green Indian ware, said to have been brought from 
abroad by the Marquis and Marchioness of Rockingham, or by 
the Honourable Mrs. Cadogan, and preserved for fifty or sixty 
