Pottery: A History of the Pottery Industry and Its Evolution as Applied to Sanitation, with Unique Specimens and Facsimile Marks from Ancient to Modern Foreign and American Wares

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Sivu 54 - The drainage was so bad that in rainy weather the gutters soon became torrents. Several facetious poets have commemorated the fury with which these black rivulets roared down Snow Hill and Ludgate Hill, bearing to Fleet Ditch a vast tribute of animal and vegetable filth from the stalls of butchers and green-grocers. This flood was profusely thrown to right and left by coaches and carts.
Sivu 54 - When the evening closed in, the difficulty and danger of walking about London became serious indeed. The garret windows were opened, and pails were emptied, with little regard to those who were passing below. Falls, bruises, and broken bones were of constant occurrence. For, till the last year of the reign of Charles the Second, most of the streets were left in profound darkness.
Sivu 53 - James's Square was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster. At one time a cudgel player kept the ring there. At another time an impudent squatter settled himself there, and built a shed for rubbish under the windows of the gilded saloons in which the first magnates of the realm, Norfolk, Ormond, Kent, and Pembroke, gave banquets and balls.
Sivu 53 - ... we should be disgusted by their squalid appearance, and poisoned by their noisome atmosphere. In Covent Garden a filthy and noisy market was held close to the dwellings of the great. Fruit women screamed, carters fought, cabbage stalks and rotten apples accumulated in heaps at the thresholds of the Countess of Berkshire and of the Bishop of Durham...
Sivu 124 - All the marks on page 142 are found on pottery apparently of Delft; but their signification is unknown. It is important to note that similar marks are found on wares of Rouen, and other factories. The collector will exercise judgment as to paste and style of decoration before assigning specimens, and will frequently find it impossible to decide where a piece was made.
Sivu 162 - Rose? 98. COALPORT. 99-104. COLEBROOK-DALE. The first three are the older marks. 102, adopted 1851. 103 is a modern mark, being a monogram of SC. for Salopian, Colebrook-Dale, and including C. for Caughley or Coalport; S, for Swansea; and N, for Nantgarrow, the combined factories. 105. SHELTON. The New Hall factory. Modern marks of this factory are HACKWOOD, or HACKWOOD & CO., from 1842 to 1856; then C & H, late Hackwml, for Cockson & Harding; and since 1862 HARDING.
Sivu 124 - Verstelle. 64. 65. DE PORCELEIN BYL (The Porcelain Hatchet). Justus Brouwer. Occurs frequently. 66, 67. DE DRIE PORCELEYNE FLESCHJES (The Three Porcelain Bottles). Hugo Brouwer. 68-70. T'HART (The Stag). Hendrik van Middeldyk. 71. DE TWEE SCHEEPJES (The Two Ships). Anth. Pennis. 72-74. DE PORCELEYNE SCHOOTEL (The Porcelain Dish). Johannes van Duyn. 75. DE VERGULDE BLOMPOT (The Gilded Flower Pot). P. Verburg. The mark is not facsimile. 76. DE PORCELYN FLES (The Porcelain Bottle). Pieter van Doorne....
Sivu 161 - Forms of the anchor mark in colors or gold. The anchor was used by many other factories. 25, 26. Uncertain. Bow ? 27, 28. DERBY. Chelsea-Derby period. 29, 30. Derby. Crown-Derby period. 30 supposed to be mark on pieces made at Chelsea, after the purchase by Duesbury, and before closing the works. 31. Derby. A mark of Duesbury's time, date unknown. 32, 33, 34, 35. Marks used from about 1788. The earliest in puce or blue, later in red. 34 is of Duesbury & Kean. 36. Derby. Bloor's mark, 1825-'30. 37-41....
Sivu 15 - After the settlement of America by Europeans coarse pottery was made in various parts of the country, but no artistic work was attempted. Our ancestors used pewter and wooden dishes. Pottery was not common in American houses until the middle of the eighteenth century, and few of the 'people of revolutionary times had seen porcelain. Tea was not used in Europe until the middle of the seventeenth century, and was not known in America prior to 1710. Teapots and tea services were not made in Europe until...
Sivu 147 - The windmill is the earliest mark, rare, used only in 1775. 64 is stenciled on a specimen. 65, initial of Monsieur, the king's brother; 66, 67, 68, initials of Prince Louis Stanislas Xavier; 69, initial of Moitte, director, used with the name Clignancourt; 70, initial of Deruelle, director. 71. Paris. Manufacture du petit Carousel. Mark used with_ the name of the factory variously abbreviated.

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