BURFORD BROTHERS, East Liverpool, Ohio.
BURGESS & LEIGH, Burslem, manufacturers of earthenware, succeeded Thomas Hulme at the High Street ?, Works.
BURGESS, JOHN W., Trenton, N.
BURLINGTON, N.
BURMANTOFTS, a small village on the outskirts of Leeds, gives its name to the pottery made there by the.
BURROUGHS & MOUNTFORD, Trenton, N.
BURSLEM, the oldest of the towns constituting the group known as the Staffordshire Potteries.
BURTON-ON-TRENT, Staffordshire.
BURTON, WILLIAM, F.
BY MR. H. KOFOED. There being no chemical laboratory in Worcester at that time, regular visits were made to the neighboring town of Birmingham for the practice of analytical chemistry, while drawing and applied design were studied at the Worcester School of Art. Mr. Binns realized early in his career the many-sidedness of an education in ceramics, and it was not long before occasion arose for acqu…
CACCIAPUOTI, Naples.
CACH A N WARE.
CADUCEUS, the wand of Mercury, used as a trademark at Meissen 1717-2o, and by Powell & Bishop, Hanley.
CAEN.
CAFFAGGIOLA, also spelt "Caffagiulo," "Cafagiol," "Chaffaggiolo," "Chaffaggilolo," etc.
CAFFAGGIOLA CUP WITH GROTESQUES. pears on the reverse of the ware.
CALATA GIRONE, Sicily.
CALIGARI, ANTONIO FILIPPO, with Antonio Casali, established a fabrique at Pesaro in 1763.
CAMAIEU.
CAMBRIDGE ART POTTERY COMPANY, Cambridge, Ohio.
CAMILLO, an artist at Ferrara, early in the sixteenth century.
CAMPBELL, COLIN MINTON, Stoke-upon-Trent. Mr. Campbell was admitted into partnership with Herbert Minton about the year 1848, and at the death of the latter (1858) became, with Michael Daintry Hollins, sole proprietors. This partnership was dissolved in 1867, Mr. Campbell retaining control of the business and shortly afterwards admitting into partnership his two cousins, T. W. and H. Minton. He di…
CAMPBELL TILE COMPANY, Stoke-upon-Trent.
CANDELIERE A.
CANDIANA, near Padua, Italy.
CANETTES.
CANTAGELLIS, Naples. This firm has existed for about a century as makers of common earthenware stoves, etc. In 1878 they branched out into decorative pottery, from what at first was regarded as a trivial act of kindness. A poor whitewasher came to Signor Ulysses Cantagelli and said he was starving and unless he found work would throw himself into the Arno. Seeing that the man was in earnest, Signo…
CAPO DI MONTE.
CAPPELLMANS, of Brussels.
CAREY, T. & J., King Street Works, Longton.
CAROLINA.
CARRIES, a sculptor, of Paris, a man of exceptional versatility and talent, who, impatient of the tediousness of his art, determined to express his thoughts in clay, and who accordingly became for a time lost to the world in the mountains of Morvan, and in the midst of the rustic potters there he studied the A B C of his trade. Here he produced a large number of pieces which gradually assumed the …
CARR, JAMES. Born at Shelton and served his apprenticeship to John Ridgway at the Cauldon Place Works. He was afterward employed by James Clews, of Cobridge, and came to this country in 1844. He worked first for the American Pottery Company, of Jersey City, and in 1852 he rented the Swan Hill Pottery at South Amboy. The factory, which was built by C. Fish, had not been a success, and it had been v…
CARR, THOMAS, son of the above, served an apprenticeship of nineteen years with his father, and upon his retirement went to Wheeling, W.
CARTLIDGE. Mr. Charles Cartlidge, who for a number of years had acted as New York agent for William Ridgway, started a small factory at Greenpoint about 1848 for the manufacture of china, producing at first principally door furniture of excellent quality, and employing about sixty hands, Later, tableware was made in commercial quantities, at first in bone china, but later in a true hard porcelain.…
CARTWRIGHT BROTHERS, East Liverpool, Ohio.
CARTWRIGHT, RICHARD, & SON, made butter-pots marked with their name at Burslem from 1640 to 1675.
CASHMERE.
CASTEL-DURANTE (Italy).
CASTELLA - CASTELLI colors, outlined in blue, and modeled in bistre with extraordinary skill.
CASTELLANIS, Rome, are perhaps the most artistic of all modern Italian potters.
CASTELLI (Italy-Abruzzes). Little or nothing is known of the products of Castelli previous to the seventeenth century, although there is a faience plaque enameled in white in the Museum of Industrial Art at Rome attributed to the fifteenth century. In the seventeenth, and still more in the eighteenth century, Castelli became one of the most important centers of faience manufacture. In addition to …
CASTELLO (or Citta di Castello), near Gubbio, Italy. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century it was principally in this city that the style of decoration was employed that the Italians name "sgraffio" and which resembles the process of decoration by engobage used in France as early as the thirteenth century. The decorations on glazed wares of Citta di Castello represented the popular art in I…
CASTILIION (France).
CASTING.
CASTLEFORD, twelve miles from Leeds, England.
CAUGHLEY, Salop, England.
CAULDON. Cauldon Place Works, Stoke-upon-Trent. The early history of this celebrated factory is told in our sketch of the life of Job Ridgway and his two sons, John and William. For some time William had not been connected with the Cauldon Works, and in 1859 John retired, the business passing to Mr. T. C. BrownWesthead, Mr. Bates and Mr. William Moore, and the style of the firm changed from John R…
CAUSSY, PIERRE PAUL.
CELADON. When Chinese porcelain began to arrive in Europe it included some pieces of a beautiful sea green color which, in France particularly, was welcomed enthusiastically, and received from its admirers there the name of Celadon. A popular novel published in 1647 by Honore Darfe had for its central figure the "Bergen Celadon," a fascinating figure in a group of ideal shepherds and shepherdesses…
CENCIO, MAESTRO.
CENTRAL NEW YORK POTTERY, Utica, N.
CERAMIC.
CERAMIC ART COMPANY (L'Art de la Ceramique), Florence.
CERAMIC ART COMPANY, Trenton, N. J. Incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, May 18, tggo. Mr. Jonathan Coxon, president, and Mr. Walter S. Lenox, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Coxon Company consists of fine china body, decorated in an artistic manner either in the style of Belleek or with well-executed painted subjects distinguished for their individuality. Mr. Lenox has been fortunate enough to…
CHAFFERS, W.
CHAFFERS, RICHARD.
CHAMBRELANS.
CHAMPION, RICHARD, Bristol. Champion seems to have been making some experiments with American clays with a view to making china as early as 1765. In 1768 he established a factory at Bristol, and probably worked under a license from Cookworthy, who in 1770 removed his Plymouth factory to (what is now) 15 Castle Green, Bristol. Champion bought Cookworthy's patent rights in 1773, the legal transfer b…
CHANAK-KALESI (the pottery castle) is the name given by the Turks to the "Castle of Asia," on the banks of the Dardanelles.
CHANTILLY.
CHAPELLE.
CHAPELLE-AUX-POTS (LA), Oise, France.
CHAPELLE-DES-POTS (LA), (Charente-Inferieure, France).
CHAPELLE, JACQUES, demonstrator of chemistry and member of the Academy of Sciences, was called to direct the manufactory of Sceaux, founded in 1748 by De Bry, with whom he associated about 1750 in the manufacture of a fine decorated faience.
CHAPLET.
CH ARLOTTEN BURG, near Berlin.
CH ATILLON (Seine, France). There was a manufactory of hard porcelain here in 1775. C II ATTERLEY, SAMUEL, Hanley. Staffordshire, a potter at the end of the eighteenth century. C II A-NO-VII, or tea ceromonies of Japan. Rules for the regulation of these ceremonies were made about the middle of the fifteenth century and were the cause of th:. large prices occasionally paid for the pottery used in t…
CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE (Loire-et-Cher), France.
CHELSEA, England. The names of the founders, the date when the works were started, even the site thereof, are largely a matter of conjecture. From advertisements in the newspapers of the period dating from 1747 some scraps of information have been gleaned. The first manager we have any knowledge of was Charles Gouyn, who was there in 1750, described as the "late 'manager," Nicholas SprimOnt being …
CHELSEA CHINA COMPANY, New Cumberland, W.
CHICANNEAU, or CHICOINEAU (Pierre), at the end of the seventeenth century founded at St.
CHID-KO KARATSU.
CHIGI, CARDINAL, established a works at San Quirico about 1714 with the idea of reviving the art of faience painting.
CHINA. Mr. W. C. Prime, in his "Pottery and "Porcelain," says : "The more experienced judges of Oriental porcelain freely acknowl edge, in numerous colors and kinds, the impossibility of determining periods of manufacture, and it may well be doubted whether there is any person in China, Europe or America who upon examining specimens of certain exquisite colors can decide whether they are of the Mi…
CHINA CLAY.
CHINA STONE, or petuntse.
CHINELOFF, in Poland.
CHOISY-LE-ROL There was a porcelain manufactory established here in 1785 by Clement.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway.
CHRISTIAN PORCELAIN.
CHRONOLOGICAL.
CHRYSANTHEMO-P.EONIENNE. Japanese ware, so called from the prevalence of chrysanthemums and peonies on the ground. The chrysanthemum is the badge of the Empire of Japan. This ware was by M. Jacquemart ascribed to China. Mr. A. W. Franks says : "It is much to be regretted that the Japanese have been so much in the habit of inscribing on their productions the Chinese dates, which has been done witho…
CHURCH GRESLEY, Leicestershire.
CINCINNATI, Ohio.
CISTERN, MAJOLICA-WARE OF URBINO. CIRCA, 1540. which they are often confounded. The celebrated plate entitled "Raffael and the Fornarina" (q.v.) was painted here. Deruta is supposed to have been founded by a pupil of Luca della Robbia and produced an infinity of wares of an admirable style of design, though somewhat cold and monotonous. Castel-Durante was in existence in 1361. The general characte…
CITY POTTERY, Trenton, N.
CLARKE, WILLIAM, of Newcastle, Staffordshire, migrated to France, and after having experimented at Lille and other places settled at Montereau to manufacture English earthenware.
CLEFFIUS, LAMBERTUS.
CLEMENTSON, JOSEPH.
CLERISSY (Clericy or Clerici).
CLERISSY, PIERRE (II.), born in 1704, became in 1728 the successor of his uncle of the same name.
CLERMONT-FERRAND (Puy-de-Dome).
CLEWS, JAMES, succeeded A.
CLIGNANCOURT, a manufactory of hard porcelain founded by Pierre Dereulle, who obtained the patronage of the Comte de Provence, afterward Louis XVIII.
CLODION, CLAUDE MICHEL.
CLOISSONNE ENAMEL.
COADES.
COALBROOKDALE, Salop, England.
COALPORT. Some time previous to 1798, John Rose, who had been apprenticed to Turner, of Caughley, started a small works at Jackfield, but soon removed to Coalport, where he occupied a small works which had been carried on by a Mr. Young, a mercer of Shrewsbury, and which still form a part of the works. The Caughley Works do not seem to have been able to stand Mr. Rose's opposition, and in 1799 Mr.…
COBALT.
COBLENTZ, Germany.
COBRIDGE.
COBRIDGE WORKS, Cobridge, Staffordsire. According to Chaffers, these works were started by Stevenson & Dale in 178o and that in 1815 it was A. Stevenson. Jewett gives the date of erection as 18o8, by Bucknall & Stevenson, who were succeeded by A. Stevenson. He occupied them until 1818, when they passed into the hands of Ralph and James Clews, the latter taking over the works a little later. Steven…
COCHRANE, R., & Co., Britannia Pottery, Glasgow, manufacturers of earthenware.
COFFINS. "At Warka, probably the ancient Ur of the Chaldees, Mr.