AALMES, or Aalmis, a painter on faience torn at Rotterdam, who for a long time worked for Cornelis de Berg, of Delft.
ABAQUESNE, MASSEOT, a faience manufacturer of Rouen, A.
ABBOT, FRANK P., commenced his business career with Churchman & England in 1868. to 1870 he became associated with Chas.
ABINGDON, J.
ABRAHAM, R.
ABSOLON, Yarmouth, England.
ACOLE, GIOVANNI, a potter of Faenza, Italy.
ADAMS, HARVEY, Longton, Staffordshire.
ADAMS, JOHN, Brick House Works, Burslem. The first brick house erected in Burslem was built by John Adams about the year 1657, and the adjacent potworks founded about the same time became known as the Brick House Works. They were afterwards carried on by Ralph Adams (about A. D. 1717), and he was succeeded by his son John, who died in 1757. His son and heir, William Adams, being only seven years o…
ADAMS, RICHARD (born 1739, died 181.1), commenced manufacturing at Cobridge in 1759 and made white stone ware and salt-glaze earthenware.
ADAMS, WILLIAM, a friend and pupil of Wedgwood and cousin of William Adams of the Brick House, established a works at Tunstall in 1789, called the Greengates Pottery.
ADAMS, WILLIAM, Stoke-upon-Trent. William Adams (1) of Fenton Hall, only son of the above, was born in 1772. In addition to the interest he had in his father's pottery at Cobridge, he had an interest in the Hadderidge Pottery, Burslem, which belonged to his father-in-law, Louis Heath. This pottery came into the possession of the Adams in 1839, but they sold it in 189o, having let it for a time to …
AGATE WARE, Staffordshire.
AGOSTINO, DI ANTONIO DI DUCCIO, pupil of Luca della Robbia.
AHRENFELDT, CHARLES, born at Luebeck, Germany, December lot 1807 ; died at Dresden in 1893.
AIARIEBuR0, Sweden.
AIRE (France).
AJAIB EL BOLDAN, a work written in the thirteenth century by Kazi Imad-ed-Din Kazvini, who died A.
AKAHADA WARE, Japan.
ALBANY SLIP, a natural glaze found in the bed of the Hudson River near Albany.
ALBISSOLA, a village near Savona, Italy, where the faience works generally known as Savona were established.
ALCOCK & DIGGORY, Burslem.
ALCOCK, HENRY, & CO., Cobridge, Staffordshire, manufacturers of semi-porcelain.
ALCOCK, RICHARD, Burslem, Staffordshire.
ALCOCK, SAMUEL, figure painter at Copelands, Stoke-upon-Trent.
ALCORA, near Valencia, Spain.
ALER VALE POTTERY, Newton Abbot, Devon.
ALHAMBRA VASE, a vase four feet three inches high and seven feet in circumference - a fine example of the Hispano-Moresque period ( see Hispano-Moresque).
ALLEN, T.
ALLEN, THOMAS, an artist on pottery, whose education, begun at the Stoke School of Art, was continued at South Kensington, for which building he executed the large friezes and dome pieces so well known and justly admired.
ALLERTON, CIIAS., & SONS, Longton, Staffordshire, manufacturers of china and luster ware. M 10. ALLon. These works were established in 1790 by James Anderson, and were afterwards carried on by William Gardner. In 1855 they were purchased by the present proprietors, W. & J. Bailey. The products are rockingham, majolica and jet. and 1769. The son also published several books on mineralogy, porcelain…
ALPAUGH & MAGOWAN, Trenton, N.
ALPHONSO I. about 1504 caused experiments to be made which resulted in the production of bianco allatato, or milky-white glaze.
ALSOP, Wm., proprietor of a pottery at Plymouth, England, making common white earthenware and blue printed.
ALUMINA, one of the earths, consisting of the metal aluminum and oxygen.
AMATORII.
AMELS.
AMERICAN PORCELAIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Gloucester, N.
AMERICAN PORCELAIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Greenpoint, N.
AMERICAN POTTERY COMPANY, Jersey WARE..
AMEYA.
AMSTERDAM.
ANATOLIAN.
ANCHOR.
ANCY LE FRANCE, France.
ANDENNE (Belgium).
ANDREOLI, GIORGIO, the prince of Italian ceramists of the sixteenth century. He was the son of Pietro, of Castle Judeo, in the Diocese of Pavaia. Accompanied by his brother Salambine, he went to Gubbio in the second half of the fifteenth century. He appears to have left there and returned in 1492, accompanied by his younger brother, Giovanni. They were enrolled as citizens May 23, 1498, on pain of…
ANGLO-SAXON.
ANGOOLEME, a manufactory of hard porcelain situated in the Rue de Bondy, Paris ; established about 1780.
ANGOOLEME.
ANNAFIELD POTTERY, Glasgow.
ANSETTE, FRANCAIS, was controller of the Niederville works and earned thirty sous a day.
ANSPACH (Bavaria).
ANTWERP.
APREY, in Haute Marne, the eastern province of France. A manufactory was founded here in 175o by -404( Lallemand de Villehaut, Baron d'Aprey, who had already a glass manufactory here. The shapes were of elegant form, copied mostly from goldsmith's models. For the decorations, they were noticeable only for two features - the application of designs hitherto exclusively used on china, on faience bod…
ARABESQUE, a term applied to an arrangement of foliated scrolls, probably first introduced in the ornamentation of Arab mosques by Persian workmen during the occupation of the country by the former in the eighth century.
ARAB POTTERY.
ARBOIS (France).
ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY COMPANY, Poole, Dorset.
ARDE, ADRIAN VAN, was measurer of earths and clays imported to Rotterdam, A.
ARDUS, near Montauban, France.
ARITA, Province of Hizen, Japan. The seat of a large porcelain industry. In a hill near by are to be found all the necessary materials for making porcelain, and every manufacturer helps himself withOut restraint, and, being under no control, can bring away whatever he requires. A great squandering of material necessarily results. Here are made the pieces for the Emperor's table - a very clear, tra…
ARNOLD, PHILIP, was a sculptor at Neiderviller in 1759, where he received the modest stipend of twenty sous a day, and was ? exempted from taxation.
ARNOUX, LEON, son of the Widow Arnoux, of Apt. Whatever ceramic triumphs were achieved by the house of Minton during the latter half of the last century, they are so inseparably connected with the services of Mr. Arnoux as to make the one but the recital of the other. It was in 1848 that Mr. Herbert Minton was fortunate enough to secure his services, and he came to England with the reputation of b…
ARRAS (France).
ARTICULATED, or jointed porcelain.
ARTIFICIAL PORCELAIN. When porcelain was first introduced into Europe from China its composition was unknown, and men eagerly sought to penetrate the secret or to produce an imitation of it. This natural or hard porcelain was formed of two materials onlykaolin and petunste - and even when the secret of its composition became known the existence of kaolin in Europe was unknown. The first success of…
ASAHI WARE.
ASCIANO, Italy.
ASKEW, R., a painter of cupids, etc., at Derby (1772).
ASSYRIA.
ASTBURY, EDWARD, & CO., Longton, Staffordshire, china manufacturers.
ASTBURY, JOHN, a potter of Burslem, Staffordshire. When the Elers were established at Bradwell their works were carefully guarded so as to preserve the secret of the process. Astbury feigned idiocy and gained employment there, and eventually acquainted himself with their processes. Whatever opinion we may have of his integrity, his shrewdness resulted afterwards to the general good of the communit…
ASTBURY, THOMAS, son of above.
AUBAGNE, near Marseilles, France.
AUDUN-LE-TICHE (Meurthe et Moselle, France).
AUSTRIAN SHIELD.
AUVILLAR (Tarn-et-Garonne, France), possessed in the eighteenth century several manufactories whose products imitated more or less rudely the faience of Moustiers and Rouen.
AVIGNON (Vancluse, France).
AVISSEAL. Charles Jean Avisseau was born at Tours, December 25, 1796. He was at first a working potter at Sainte-Pierre-lesCorps, and afterward at Beaumont-les-Autels. Here he saw a piece of Palissy ware, which produced on him the determination to recover the secret of its manufacture and to employ those enamels which people said were lost. During fifteen years he prosecuted his researches, and, l…
AWAJI ware is from the Village of Iganomura, Island of Awaji, Japan.
AWATA, eastern district of Kioto, Japan.
AYNSLEY, JOHN, & SON, Longton, manufacturers of china ; established in the first part of the present century.
AZURE POTTERY, made in the neighborhood of Beauvais, Oise, France, about the middle of the seventeenth century.
BABYLON. The pottery of Babylon and Assyria is among the most wonderful of the world's productions. Not for the beauty of its form or the perfection of its workmanship, but that it has served to reveal to us the history of its kings, its wars and customs ; has instructed us as to their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics ; revealed even their love-letters, their family life and religion, and sh…
BACHELIER, superintendent of the painting and gilding at Vincennes, a man of much originality and taste, who rendered great service to the industrial art of the close of the eighteenth century, and made possible the perfection attained at Sevres.
BADDELEY, R. & J.
BADDELEY, WM., commenced making brown ware at Eastwood, Hanley, in 1720.
BADEN.
BAGNALL, CHARLES, one of the SiX Staffordshire potters who purchased Champion's patent.
BAGULEY, ISAAC, Rotherham, England.
BAILLEUL (Nord, France).
BANKO WARE.
BARBATINA (Italian).
BARBEAUX.
BARBER, EDWIN ATLEE, author of "The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States," was born at Baltimore in 1851. During the years 1874 and 1875 he was a member of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of. the Western territories under Professor F. V. Hayden, visiting with this party of scientists the prehistoric ruins of Colorado and Utah and acting in the meanwhile as correspondent …
BARBOTINE ( French), slip for fixing handles, etc., as above.
BARDI, of Montelupo, makes the ever-popular ware called after the seat of his factory.
BARNY, RIGONI & LANGLE, china manufacturers, Limoges, France.
BARYTES,. used in the paste of Wedgwood's jasper. "The white particles of the barytes served to reflect the colors of the various oxides used as staining materials for the differently tinted jaspers." - A.
BASSANO, near Venice.
BATES, ELLIOT & CO., BATES, GILDEA & WALKER, BATES, WALKER & CO., Dalehall, Staffordshire.
BAT PRINTING.
BAUER, ROSENTHAL & CO., Selb, Bavaria.
BAWO, FRANCIS H., was born at Haussen, Germany, October 3, 1834, and started in business in New York City in 1864, together with Charles T.
BAYREUTH, Bavaria, at the commencement of the sixteenth century had a manufactory of stoneware ornamented with figures and medallions in relief.
BEADS.