English Delftware

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First edition 1948. Early account dealing with processes and products but largely comprising short profiles of individual potteries organised by location. Written for collectors. Includes: 'Origins and methods of manufacture'; 'Seventeenth century delftware'; 'Attribution of eighteenth century delftware from Lambeth, Bristol and Liverpool'. The chapters containing history profiles comprise: 'London pothouses' [pp45-51] comprising 13 profiles; 'Brislington and Bristol pothouses' [pp52-7], 5 profiles; 'Liverpool pothouses' [pp58-63], 13 profiles - including Lord Street / Thomas Shaw of Dale St / Samuel Gilbody of Shaw's Brow /Samuel Poole of Dale St / Richard Chaffers of Shaw's Brow / Patrick's Hill Pothouse / Duke St / Richard Hillary of Dale St / Old Haymarket / Park Lane / Copperas Hill / Folly Lane / Harrington St; ''Wincanton Pothouse'; 'Irish pothouses' [68-73pp], 6 profiles; 'The Glasgow Pothouse and its delftware' [pp74-8] ie Delftfield Pottery