TOYOSUKE, the first manufacturer of Horaku ware on the Raku system, established in 1820.
TOYO-URA WARE.
TOZAN POTTERY, Giwon, Kioto.
TOZAN WARE.
TRENTON, N. J. The history of Trenton has been told in these pages under various headings, and it is therefore unnecessary to repeat it here. Its development as a pottery center has been somewhat remarkable when we look upon what has been accomplished there and reflect that its first pottery sprang into existence in 1852. In 1879 there were nineteen potteries, with fifty-seven kilns, producing som…
TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY.
TRESSEMANES & VOGT, Limoges.
TREVISO, Italy.
TRIANA, near Seville (Spain).
TSUJI KATSUZO, a descendant of Tsuji Kizayemon, is one of the distinguished Japanese potters of to-day, and is especially skilled in piercing porcelain.
TSUJI KIZAYEMON.
TUCKER, WILLIAM ELLIS. About the year 1816 W. E. Tucker commenced business in Philadelphia as a decorator of pottery, and at some subsequent period which has not been clearly ascertained started the manufacture of china in conjunction with his brother Thomas. The works were at the corner of Market, Schuylkill and Front streets. It was some time prior to 1827, for we know that in that year a medal …
TUNIS. The ceramic industry here dates back to a period of high antiquity, the large jars found at Pompeii having been made at Djerba, where there are still 129 small potteries at work. The trade has declined of late years, owing to the competition of the potteries of Bizerte and the environs of Tunis. The potteries of. Nebeul were founded by immigrants from Djerba three or four hundred years ago,…
TUNSIALL, one of the towns constituting the group known as The Potteries." The trade is principally earthenware, several important manufactories being located here.
TURNER, Thos., born in 1749, son of the Rev.
TWYFORD. The story of Josiah Twyford is so interwoven with that of the Elers Bros. and that of John Astbury as to need no recapitulation here. When the Elers left Staffordshire, and Astbury by his energy and research laid the foundation for the triumphs of Wedgwood, Twyford started a manufactory near Shelton Old Hall, the seat of Elijah Fenton, the Staffordshire poet, and the site of the present c…
TYGS. The prototype of the lavishly embellished loving cup of the present day dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century, intended as presentst .118 to housewives. and - as an ornament for the "dresser," and also perhaps to show the skill of the donor. Probably they were only used on special occasions, and this may account for why so many have been preserved to us. The handles of the tyg…
UCHIUMI, Kicnizo, a present-day manufacturer of dark red ware at Kutani.
UNAKER.
UNION PORCELAIN WORKS, Brooklyn. This is the only manufactory in the United States making a true hard porcelain. Originally established about 1854 by a number of German workmen as a manufactory of bone china, it was rescued from extinction, which their want of knowledge and dishonesty nearly precipitated, by Mr. Thos. C. Smith, who had joined them in 1857. His purpose originally was to abandon the…
UNITED STATES. The history of modern pottery in the United States is necessarily brief, and, as has been the case with many other countries, mainly imitative. Looking back on the early days of ceramics in Europe, we find that all the leading potteries there were influenced largely in the matter of design by Oriental suggestions, until later they developed a distinctive style of their own. This inf…
URBINO, Italy. Faience fabriques existed at Urbino at the close of the fifteenth century, but it was only in the second quarter of the sixteenth that they attained, under the protection of Guidobaldo II.. a place of such importance that they must be ranked among the foremost of Italian manufactories. With those of Faenza the faiences of Urbino may be considered the most artistic and the most remar…
UTZCIINEIDER & Co., Sarreguemines.
VALENCIA. The almost unbroken, if unwritten, record of pottery in Valencia dates from the Roman epoch to the present day. Before its conquest by James I. of Arragon, in 1239, potteries had long been established, and were of such importance that the Moorish potters of Xativa (San Filippo) were protected by special edict. This charter provides that every master potter making vases, domestic vessels,…
VALENCIENNES ( France).
VAN BRIGGLE POTTERY.
VANCE FAIENCE COMPANY.
VAN HAM ME, J.
VAN WICKLE.
VARAGES (Var).
VARIEGATED WARES.
VENGOBECHEA, GABRIEL, made coarsely painted faience plates, signed with his name in full, at Honda, in Holland, in the eighteenth century.
VENICE (Italy). Venice possessed from the close of the fifteenth century manufactories whose products, now rare, were dated 1542, 1543, 1546, 1562, etc., and were in no wise remarkable, especially when compared with the products of other Italian fabriques of the same period. About the beginning of the eighteenth century - probably in a fabrique established at Murano by the brothers Bartolini, who …
VERHAAST, GYSBERT.
VERHAGEN, JOHANNES.
VERONA (Italy).
VERSES ON POTTERY. Jugs, mugs, etc., of the old English potter, 1775-180o, were often inscribed with inscriptions and verses. The Willett collection at Brighton is particularly rich in these. Some of these we cannot refrain from quoting. Tom Paine seems to have been particularly obnoxious to the potters - a jug bearing his portrait on one side and on the other a picture of him addressing a herd of…
VERSTELLE, GEERTRUY.
VEZZI BROTHERS, Venice.
VIENNA. The royal factory here was established in 1719 by Claude Innocent du Pasquier, who induced a workman from Meissen, named Stenzel, to break his oath and go to Vienna. He had as partners C. Conrad Hunger, Martin Peter and Heinrich Zender. Conrad, not being promptly paid, did not communicate the secret, and after two years of unsuccessful work the factory was suspended. Du Pasquier, however, …
VILLEROY & Bocu, Septfontaines. - Nos. f-10, before 1795; J11-14, between 1795.1830; 15, about 1830; 1, 2, 11, 12, 13 and 15 were im printed ; 3 10 were painted in blue ; 14 was stamped in green.
VILLEROY & nom. Established January 1, 1841, by the two familie's for the purpose of uniting the manufactories carried on by them at Wallerfangen, Septfontaines and Mettlach. The Wallerfangen factory was founded in 1789 by Nicholas Villeroy, a native of Metz, after he had given up a small factory at Frauenberg, Alsace. The first important progress mare at Wallerfangen was due to the French enginee…
VINCENNES (Seine, France).
VINEUF, near Turin (Italy).
VIOLET.
VIOLINS.
VIRGINIA.
VISTA, ALLEGRE, near Oporto.
VITERBO (Italy).
VODREY POTTERY COMPANY, East Liverpool, Ohio.
VOGT, M.
VOLEUR, JEHAN DE, at Hesdin, France, was toward the close of the fourteenth century acquainted with the use of stanniferous enamel.
VOLTAIRE.
VOYEZ, J.
VRON (Somme).
VULCAN.
WAKAYAMA, Province of Kii, Japan.
WAL, JOHANNES VAN DER.
WALL TABLETS.
WANDELEIN.
WARBURTON, MRS.
WARNER, EDMUND.
WARWICK CHINA COMPANY, Wheeling, W. Va. This company was organized in 1887. J. R. McCortney was president and M. N. Cecil secretary. Mr. McCortney retired in 1889, his place being taken by Mr. 0. C. Dewey, a position he occupied for a few months only, as in November of the same year he was succeeded by C. W. Franzheim, who held the position until February, 1893. when he retired, and Mr. Thomas Car…
WEDGWOOD. At once the best known and the greatest name in the history of English pottery. The Wedgwoods constituted almost a clan in themselves, so numerous were they. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the surname Wedgwood half fills the parish registers of Burslem. As early as 1370, in the reign of Edward III., Thomas de Weggewood is mentioned. It was the second branch of the family tha…
WEDGWOOD, Josrmi. To obtain a true estimate of the influence exercised by Josiah Wedgwood on English ceramics it is necessary to briefly review the conditions of the art in the time immediately previous to the commencement of his labors. The beautiful white salt glaze stoneware, difficult sometimes to distinguish from porcelain on account of its thinness, translucency and whiteness, had been perfe…
WELLER, SAMUEL A., Zanesville, 0. Mr. Weller commenced business in a village near Zanesville as a manufacturer of flower pots, eventually removing to Zanesville, where he has now a very large establishment. In 1896 he purchased the business of the Lonhuda Pottery Company, of Steubenville, Mr. Long, the moving spirit in the concern, entering Mr. Weller's employment with a view of continuing the pro…
WELLSVILLE PIONEER POTTERY COMPANY, Wellsville, 0.
WESSEL, LUDWIG, Popplesdorf.
WETHERBY, J.
WHEATLEY, THOMAS.
WHEELING POTTERY COMPANY, Wheeling, W. Va. Incorporated in 1879, since which the productive capacity has been increased fourfold, necessitating the building of a new factory, the "La Belle" works, and practically continues under the same management as originally composed, with Mr. C. W. Franzheim as president and general manager. The productions are extremely varied, one of their most notable succ…
WHISTLES.
WHITE CHINESE PORCELAIN.
WIHELDON, THOMAS. At the time that WhieldOn commenced business the manufacture of the beautiful salt glaze wares of Staffordshire was in danger of extinction through the underselling of the different potters and the consequent deterioration of the ware, which in place of the thinness that had distinguished it had become coarse and clumsy. Whieldon, in his modest thatched-covered pottery at Fenton,…
WILEMAN & Co., Foley Potteries, Longton. This enterprising pottery was originally owned by J. F. Wileman, who made common earthenware for the Colonial market. He was afterward joined by J. B. and Percy Shelley, and they commenced making a very good quality of china. Mr. Wileman retired from the business, and the death of Mr. J. B. Shelley left Mr. Percy Shelley, B.A., the sole proprietor. He make…
WILKINSON, A.
WILLETS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Trenton, N.
WILLOW PATTERN.
WILSON, C.
WINE POTS.
WINTERTHUR, Switzerland.
WITSENBURG, CORNELIS, master potter of Delft in 1696.
WITSENBURGII, THEopoRE, master potter in Delft about 169o, where he was established at the Sign of the Star.
WoLFE, Tilos., Stoke-upon-Trent, potter at the end of the last century.
WOLFSOHN, Dresden.
WOODALL, WILLIAM, M.P. Mr. Woodall, son of William Woodall, of Shrewsbury, was born in 1832. The project of a memorial of fitting character to Josiah Wedgwood had been mooted, but was threatened with extinction when Mr. Woodall became honorary secretary to the movement ; and it was almost entirely to his unremitting zeal that the project, after six years of incessant labor, found fulfilment in the…
WOOD, ENOCII, son of Aaron Wood. It is seldom that three successive generations furnish such three representative men as Ralph, Aaron and Enoch Wood. The latter commenced business on his own account in Burslem at the old Swan Bank in the year 1783. In 1790 he was joined by James Caldwell, and the firm became Wood & Caldwell. This continued until 1818, when the firm was changed to Enoch Wood & Sons…
WOODVILLE, or WOODEN Box. Situated about five miles from Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. The name arose from an old wooden box or but which formerly stood on the site of the present toll-house, where a man used to sit and collect tolls, but which was afterward burned down. The original box was an old port wine butt from Drakelow Hall, and in this the collector, Diogenes-like, spent his days. In 1800 …
WOOD, WILLIAM, son of Aaron and brother of Enoch Wood, born 1741 and died prior to 1821.
WORCESTER. The Worcester Porcelain Works, or, as originally termed, the "Worcester Tonquin Manufacture," were the direct result of the experiments of Dr. John Wall, a chemist of much practical ability, aided by Mr. William Davis, an apothecary. These experiments were conducted, not with a view of founding a manufactory, but from a pure love of science. Mr. Binns tells us that at that time politica…
WROTHAM, Kent, contests with Staffordshire the employment of slip decoration for objects of any degree of importance.
XANTO, FRANCESCO, a native of Rovigo, settled at Urbino and there produced all his works.
YANAGAWA WARE.
YASUJIRO, IKEDA, Arita, in 1837 made a very thin, paper-like and glossy translucent porcelain known as eggshell.
YATSU-SHIRO WARE, made at the village of Shirno Tovoharo, near the town of Yatsu-hashi. province of Higo, Japan, where the factory was founded about 1624 for the purpose of producing ware similar to Satsuma.
YEBIS, one of the seven divinities of Japan, and often found as a motif on ceramics.
YEDO BANKO WARE.
YONE-HAKARI, or Rice Measure.
YORKSHIRE. (See also Leeds).
YOSIIIDAYA.
ZELL.
ZENGORA, REYOZEN, the tenth generation of that name, early in the present century commenced making porcelain in Kioto, the trade having previously consisted of earthen braziers.
ZEZE WARE.
ZIEGLER, CLAuo1 Louis, a pupil of the celebrated painter, Ingres, through impaired eyesight, had to relinquish his art, and in about the year 1840 entered into a partnership with a stoneware manufacturer at Voisinlieu, near Beauvais, with a view to restore to the manufacture of stoneware some of its former artistic character. Ziegler gave a truly artistic direction to the establishment, the stonew…
ZONAN, ANTONIO, is said to have been making majolica at Mantua at the end of the fifteenth century. ZOROK(?, MASIIIAIIOSU, a manufaCturer of porcelain, Awata, in the eastern district of Kioto. ZsoLNAY, \V., Ffinfkirchen. This manufactory was established in 1885 and quickly rose into prominence, the five churches mark being regarded as a guarantee of excellence. The works are large, employing- abou…
ZURICH ( Switzerland ) was renowned in the eighteenth century for its manufactories of faience stoves.