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Identifier: staffordshirepot00wedg (find matches)
Title: Staffordshire pottery and its history
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement), 1872-1943
Subjects: Staffordshire pottery Potters Wedgwood ware
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eychina works, near Worcester, and they taughthim to print in blue under the glaze on earthen-ware, as they did on china at Worcester. The in-vention spread with enormous rapidity and Spodemade his fortune. He died in 1797,* leaving hisson Josiah Spode II to carry on his business. The second Spode married in 1779 the eldestdaughter of John Barker, master potter of theRow Houses, Fenton. He had been a dealer inearthenware, glass and china in London. WilliamCopeland, a native of Stoke, had been his travellerand assistant in London. On his fathers deathyoung Spode made Copeland his partner and puthim in charge of the London office. Even in hisfathers lifetime Spode had begun decorating theirware with the Japan reds and blues and heavy gild-ing that was afterwards the distinguishing markof Spode and Copeland porcelain; and in 1800 theybegan to make their bone-paste porcelain, f *Gent.s Magazine, 1797, p. 802. t Shaw, Staffs. Potteries, p. 216-7;and Dift• Nat- Bi°g-:< < Spode. J34
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JOSIAH SPODE 1754-1827 To face f>. 134 SPODE AND BLUE PRINTINGPorcelain is a transparent vitreous body whichfuses on being fired, and does not require any glaze.The early porcelain had been made largely of glass;Cookworthys porcelain, and that made at SheltonNew Hall, relied solely on china clay and chinastone from Cornwall. None of these bodies werecertain, and they failed to become commercialsuccesses. But when the New Hall Company-ceased, the manufacture of their hard-paste porce-lain in England ceased too, and an entirely newporcelain body was destined to take its place. Itwas not until Spode introduced bone into the bodythat the cheap china we know to-day could beproduced.* The modern soft-paste bone porcelain consistsof nearly equal portions of china clay, china stoneand bone ash, fired to a temperature of about12 5 o C. and then glazed with a feldspar and china-clay glaze and retired, f The chief porcelain fac-tories at this time were at Worcester and Derby,but they were soo

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