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Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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stablishment. We are informed that he religiouslykept his promise not to make it. That probablyoccurred about the time (1784) spoken of by Meteyard.She adds, however, that he continued to employ Green,of Liverpool, for the old patterns. Mayer states thatabout ten years later he (Wedgwood) obtained a staffof printers from Liverpool to join him at Etruria. Ifit meant blue printing in earnest, it was mostHkely to be after Josiah Wedgwood had expired, in1795, for it is understood that his immediate successorsmade underglaze blue ware. In the meantime other Staffordshire men werestriving to print at their own factories. It was in theyear 1775 that the first serious attempt was made bya master potter to introduce this art into thePotteries. Twenty and more years had passedaway since its inception. Battersea, Bow, Chelsea,Worcester, Liverpool, Derby, Caughley and Wedgwoodhad all acquired or had access to this secret process;and yet the men of North Staffordshire—the most 74 Plate No. XXVI.
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Fig. B 20-2. POT COVERS, EARTHENWARE, COLOURED PRINT,Staffordshire. Fig. B 20-3. POT COVERS, EARTHENWARE, COLOURED PRINT.Staffordshire. Development in the 18th Century. numerous body of English potters—were quiescent!Why was it ? Well, the whole circumstances must beconsidered. In such cases trade secrets areguarded with jealous care, and hence the expense of trials and other efforts to evolve the requisiteknowledge. In the case of the desired discovery ofthe recipe of hard paste porcelain, it is said thatDr. Pott, of Berlin, made about 30,000 experiments.^Moreover, the Salt-glaze craze had not subsided. Itwas the pet at that time of the N. S. Potters ; andwe know how conservative the majority of mankindare in trade. They are obliged to be on account oftheir stock and plant. Wedgwood was a genius andemancipated himself very soon from the Salt-glazefetters. He probably anticipated what was coming.The enamellers were slaying the best period of Salt-glaze by inches, and Josiah yoked hi

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