BEAR JUGS.
BEAUVAIS, Oise, France.
BECK, A.
BEECH, RALPH BAGNALL, Kensington, near Philadelphia, had a pottery here from 1846 to 1852.
BEERBOWER, L.
BELGIUM.
BELLARMINES.
BELLEEK is a fine glazed Parian body washed with metallic lusters. It is made by what the French call the "coulage" process, - ,, i 1-? .,' .- - rilei---- _4----7=- Sle:311; IWIIII, ...Ay .,r., and which we designate as casting. A plaster mold is filled with clay diluted by water to the consistency of cream, and known as "slip." The plaster absorbing the water leaves a layer of clay adhering to …
BELLEUSE-CARRIERE, a skilful modeler who was at Mintons in 1854.
BELLEVUE, near Toul, France.
BELLEVUE POTTERY, Hull.
BENDIGO, New South Wales.
BENEDETTO, an Italian artist who produced at Siena some pieces of great merit.
BENNETT, EDWIN. Mr. Bennett, a potter from Derbyshire, England, came to the United States in 1841 to join his brother James, who had erected a pottery in East Liverpool, the first one built in that city. They made yellow and Rockingham ware here. The difficulties of shipping their products and the encroachment of the river caused them in 1844 to remove to Pittsburg. Two years later Edwin Bennett w…
BENNETT, JAMES, born in 1812, a potter of Woodville, Derbyshire, came to the United States in 1834, and first found employment at the Jersey City Pottery.
BENNETT, JOHN, formerly with Doultons, Lambeth, settled in New York in 1876 as a decorator.
BENNETT, WILLIAM, in partnership with h i s brothers, James and Edwin, at Ea st Liverpool, from 1841 to 1846, and with Edwin at Baltimore from 1849 to 1856, when he withdrew on account of failing health.
BENSON.
BENTEN, the Japanese goddess of love, richly dressed, sometimes attended by fifteen boys, her children.
BENTLEY, THOMAS, a Liverpool merchant of fine education and polished manners, taken into partnership by Josiah Wedgwood in 1766.
BERETTINO is a name given in Italy to a decoration chiefly used at Faenza in the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
BERG, CORNELIUS DE, Delft.
BERGERAC, France.
BERG, JUSTUS DE, Delft, A.
BERLIN.
BERNARDO BUONTALENTI.
BERNE, Switzerland.
BERTOLUCCI, CIUSEPPE, and FRANCESCO DI FATTORI established a fabrique at Pesaro, Italy, but it had only a short existence.
BESCHE, LUCIEN.
BFUSLINGTON, four miles from Bristol, England.
BIAGO, an Italian ceramic artist at Ferrara, A.
BILLINGSLEY, WILLIAM, an artist of considerable reputation, whose flower paintings commanded much attention. His career was a varied one, being first apprenticed at the Derby Works in 1774. In 1794 or 1795 he was at the Pinxton Works, and being a practical potter as well as a painter, the fame of that establishment owes much to him, as is evidenced from the fact that after leaving there in 1800 th…
BING & GRONDAHL, Copenhagen.
BINGLEV, THOS., & CO., proprietors of the Rockingham Pottery,1788.
BIN NS, R. W., F. S. A. Mr. Binns' association with Worcester dates from 1862, when he and Mr. W. H. Kerr conducted the business under the style of Kerr & Binns. In 1862 a joint stock company was formed, and the distinction was conferred upon Mr. Binns of making him art director - an onerous position, considering the traditions of the house - but which he has worthily filled. To his skill and ente…
BINNS, CHARLES FERGUS, Director of the New York State School of Clayworking and Ceramics, is the son of a notable potter, the late Richard William Binns, of Worcester, England, for forty-five years managing director of the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works.
BIRD, DANIEL, Stoke-upon-Trent, England.
BISCUIT OVEN, or kiln, an oven for firing pottery in the clay state.
BISHAMON, one of the Japanese gods of good fortune.
BISHOP & STONIER, Hanley, Staffordshire.
BIZEN WARE. " Japanese.
BLACK WARE.
BLATERAN, FRANCOISE, a woman who operated a pottery at Lyons about 175o.
BLUE OF THE SKY AFTER RAIN.
BLUNGER.
BOCCALERI, a guild of Venice, which in 1644, according to Sir William Drake, prepared a petition in which reference is made to previous decrees in its favor issued in the years 1455, 1472 and 1518, prohibiting the importation of foreign earthenware, and a decree of the Senate in 1665 prohibiting the importation or sale in Venice of any sort of foreign earthenware by any person not being a member of the guild.
BODLEY, E.
BOENDER, MATHIJAS, a potter of Delft, established in A.
BOGAERT, MATHEUS VAN DEN, potter of Delft, established 1714, first at the sign of "The Flower Pot" ; later at that of "The Two Savages" and of "The Stag." The mark was M.
BOILEAU, director of the Sevres manufactory from 1759 to 1773.
BOISETTE, or BOISSELLE-LE-ROY, France.
BONE Asti, a most important part of all English china, is prepared by burning bones in contact with the air. It contains eighty-three parts phosphate of lime, twelve carbonate of lime, and one of fluoride of calcium. Bone ash gives whiteness and translucency. As to the action of bones, Mt. L. Arnoux remarks that when the other materials begin to combine at a certain heat, the bones, being phosphat…
BOOTE, T. & R., Burstein, Staffordshire, England, manufacturers of earthenware.
BOOTH, E., Staffordshire, England, is credited with having first practiced the clipping of the ware into an improved glaze kept in suspension in water.
BOOTH, TAvi.ox, a painter brought up by Enoch Wood, and afterwards with the Derby China Works.
BOOTHS, Church Bank Works, Tunstall.
BOOTH, THOMAS, one of the original proprietors of the Etruria Pottery Works a. t Trenton, N.
BORDEAUX. In 1714 Jacques Husten founded a faience works here. In 1719 a remission of all taxes was granted to him by order of the Council, and though in 1729 it had acquired sufficient importance to be designated as a Royal manufactory, a prorogation of the order was refused him in 1750. Considering the importance of the factory, it is a singular fact that but little is known of its products. In …
BORELLI.
BORNE, ETIENNE and HENRY, painters at Rouen in 1689.
BOTEGA, or BOOTEGA, an Italian word signifying something between a workshop and an artist's studio, and for which there is no English equivalent.
BOTTGER, JOHN FREDERICK, or BOTTCHER, was born in 1681 Or 1682 at Schleiz, in the territory of the Reuss. Apprenticed to an apothecary in Berlin, he fell under suspicion as an alchemist and sought refuge in Saxony, which was then under the electorate of Augustus II. Here he was encouraged in hii experiments, but his non-success exhausted the patience of the king, who consented to a request of the …
BOUCIIER, a celebrated French artist, who supplied the Sevres manufactory A.
BOULLEMIER, ANTONIN. Born 1840 at Sevres, France ; died at Stoke-upon-Trent, April 25, Two. His father was a prominent decorator at Sevres. Antonin studied under Fragonand and later was employed by M. Deyfus, a well-known ceramic artist of Paris. His undoubted talent quickly showed itself, and when after the Franco-Prussian War he went to England (1871) he was immediately engaged by Mintons, for w…
BOURG-LA-REINE, a manufactory of soft porcelain that was discontinued in 1773, when it was united with that of Mennecy, and faience was manufactured exclusively.
BOURGOUIN, manufacturer of faience, Renneo. whose shapes appear to have been made from casts of goldsmiths' works.
BOURNE, BAKER & BOURNE were manufacturing earthenware at the Fountain Square Works at the end of the eighteenth century, and were one of the first firms in the Potteries to introduce printing.
BOUSSEMAERT, FRANCOIS, Lille. ( See Lille and Belgium.) BOUTET, CLAUDE. ( See Auxerre.) Bow. The early history of this celebrated factory is unknown. In 1744 Edward Heylyn, a merchant of Bow. and Thomas Frye, of West Ham, Essex, took out a patent for the production of porcelain, one of the ingredients of which was "an earth, the produce of the Cherokee nation in America, called by the natives pnak…
BOYLE, JOHN, Stoke-upon-Trent, was a partner with Herbert Minton from 1831 to 1836, under the style of Minton & Boyle.
BOYLE, ZACHARY, & SON were potters at Stoke-upon-Trent in 1829, at the Glebe Street Works, formerly owned by Adams, and later used as a tile works by Minton, Hollins & Co.
BRACQUEMOND, M. and MME., artists engaged by Havilands in the decoration of faience.
BRADSHAW, E.
BRADSHAW CHINA COMPANY, Niles, 0.
BRA, EUSTACHE MARIE JOSEPH, a sculptor and modeler born at Douai, France, May 22, 1772, and died at Choisy le Roi, December 14, 1840. .After several years' practice at Douai, Bra was associated with the pottery at Choisy le Roi.
BRAMPTON, Derbyshire.
BRANCAS, LAURAGUAIS, COUNT DE.
BRANDENBURG, Germany. Hard paste china was made here from 1719 to 1729. < now uses came to light during some excavations, ?-? ; bearing the date 1708. The factory has been Fa . .' ? worked by the Brannums for the last fifty-five r,I4 41 to, V. years, the present proprietor being responsible style depends for its effects on a colored glaze, rich greens, blues, yellows and neutral tints of such rich…
BRAZIL.
BRETBY ART POTTERY.
BRIEL, PIETER VAN DEN. a potter of Delft at. the sign of La Fortune.
BRIOT, FRANCOIS. We frequently come across newspaper and magazine paragraphs, referring to the pottery of Briot, of which the following is a sample : "One of my new customers came to me one day with a little dish. She told me she had picked it up in the shop of a Parisian antiquary, who had asked her a good price for it, affirming that it was a genuine example of the pottery of the renowned Franco…
BRISTOL, England. There were two manufacturers of delft at Bristol in the eighteenth century - Richard Frank and Joseph Flower. Frank was succeeded by Joseph Ring in 1786, and he engaged a potter from Shelton, Staffordshire, named Anthony Hassel, who initiated at Bristol the manufacture of earthenware, with which Brisol delft became a thing of the past, it never having attained to a high perfectio…
BRISTOL CUP AND SAUCER.
BROMLEY, WILLIAM, foreman to W.
BRONGNIART, ALEXANDRE, one of the most illustrious names connected with ceramic art. ? Never working or thinking for mere personal aggrandizement, the whole strength of his vigorous nature was devoted to the advancement of his art and the honor of his country. Appointed to the directorship of Sevres in the year 1800, when owing to political troubles its financial affairs were at very low ebb, he b…
BROOME, ISAAC, born at Valcartier, Que., May 16, 1835 ; had terra-cotta works in Pittsburg, and also in New York, but both ventures were unsuccessful.
BROSELEY, Salop.
BROUWER, Hum, potter of Delft, and son of Justus Brouwer.
BROUWER, T. A., JR., Middle Lane Pottery, East Hampton, N. Y. Almost at the extremity of Long Island Mr. Brouwer has established a botega, unique of its kind. and here he produces the most interesting and beautiful specimens of pottery. Without any previous knowledge of potting, inspired by the success of a daring experiment, he has for the last few years devoted his energies to perfecting the pro…
BROUWER, GERRIT, potter of Delft, established 1759 at the sign of the Little Lamp.
BROUWER, HUIBREC HT, potter of Delft, established in 1679 at the Sign of the Porcelain Hatchet.
BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE & Co. (See Cauldon.) BROWNFIELD, Wm., Cobridge, Staffordshire. ( See Cobridge Wks.) BROW N HILLS POTTERY COMPANY, Tunstall, Staffordshire.
BRUGES (Belgium).
BRUHL, COUNT, director at Meissen from 1733 to 1763, when he was succeeded by his widow.
BRUNT, BLOOR, MARTIN & Co., the founders of the Dresden Pottery Works at East Liverpool iji 1876.
BRUNT, HENRY, born at Penkhull, near Stoke-on-Trent, January 5. 1852. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. George Jones & Sons, of Stoke-upon-Trent, leaving there a year or two after its expiration to accept a position at the Minton Factory, but returned to his old firm as foreman of the works. His success in life is a practical demonstration of the utility of the Cambridge University Extensi…
BRUSSELS.
BRUYN, DE, GUSTAVE, Fives-Lille.
BUCCAROS. In Portugal the word buccaros was long applied to drinking vessels made of unglazed clays, and which are sometimes mistaken for true buccaros. When the scented pottery of America, first imported by the Portuguese, began to be in demand in Spain and Italy, the word in these two countries lost its generic character, and it was only understood to apply to the odoriferous ware made by the Am…
BUCK HAUSER PORZ.
BUEN RETIRO, Madrid.
BUERGEN, JAN VAN DER, potter of Delft.
BULGARIA.
BUNTZL AU (Silesia).
BURCH, PAULUS VAN DER ON VERBURG.