HOLLINS, WARBURTON & Co.
HOMER. Cowper has translated a poem by Homer addressed to certain potters, who, busied in baking their wares, seeing him approach, called to him and promised him a present of their commodity if he would sing to them, when he sang as follows : "Pay me my price, potters! and I will sing. Attend, 0 Pallas and with lifted arm Protect their oven ; let the cups and all The sacred vessels blacken well, a…
HOMER, W. H. (See New England Pottery Co.) Horror/. A province of China where porcelain was first manufactured during the Horn dynasty, between the years B. C. 185 and A. D. 88. HoNoRE, Paris. The early introduction of lithographic stones as applied to the decoration of porcelain is ascribed to him. _ HONORIFIC MARKS. Symbols used by the Chinese signifying for whom the ware was made. There are eig…
HOPE & CARTER, Burslem.
HOPPESTEIN, ,ROCHUS JACOB.
HOPPESTEIN, JACOB WEMMERS.
HORTEN, CHARLES FERDINAND. Born at Cologne, 1818, and studied in the school of art there. In 1836 he went to Paris, and soon obtained vogue as a successful flower painter, executing some commissions for Sevres. In 1859 he was brought to England by Messrs. W. T. Copeland & Sons and continued with them until 1897, a long and honorable service. That his work should continue so long in popular favor i…
HOUDAYER, JOHN F., was a partner in the old Trenton, N.
HOXTER.
HOZEN, ZENGORO.
HUDSON RIVER POTTERY, West Twelfth Street, New York.
HUNGARY.
HURCH, PIETER VAN.
HUTSCHENREUTHER, C.
IBIS MUMMY POTS.
IDSUMI-YAMA.
IGA WARE.
IKEDA, YASUJIRO.
IMADO WARE.
IMARI WARE.
INDIA. There is more of supposition than actual knowledge respecting the porcelain of India. Chardin, an authority on Persian porcelain, states that no porcelain was made in India, and that all used there came either from China or Persia. The Abbe Raynal, on the contrary, alluding to the house occupied by the Banians, at Surat, speaks of pdrcelain plaques inlaid in the ceiling. Marryatt gives extr…
INGLIS, THOMAS.
INSOUFFLAGE is the blowing on of glaze by means of compressed air ; the jet of glaze falls upon the porcelain standing on a revolving wheel, and it leaves on the surface of the ware only the finest film of glaze.
INTERNATIONAL POTTERY COMPANY, Trenton, N. J. This pottery was organized in 1879, the incorporators being James Moses, John Moses, Edward Clark and Thomas Clark. In September of the same year John W. Burgess, William Burgess and John A. Campbell bought out the stock of the above-named, and became the proprietors of the International Pottery Company. From that date up to the present year the concer…
INU-YAMA WARE. "This pottery is situated in the village of Inakimura, near the Castle of Inu-yama, in the County of Neiva, Province of Owari, but the date of its foundation is unknown.
IPSEN, Mme., Copenhagen.
IRELAND.
ISLETTES, LES, Meuse. It is through error that this manufactory is designated by the name of Fabrique des Islettes. In reality it was situated at Bois d'Epense (Marne), a contiguous hamlet to the village of Les Islettes, from which it is only separated by the Bresme, a small stream that forms the boundary of the Marne and of the Meuse ; but as most of the workmen employed in the pottery lived at L…
ISLEWORTH.
ISPAHAN, Persia.
ITALIENNE, A manufactory, so called, was founded at Goincourt (Oise) about 1795.
ITALY. The pottery of Etruria has already received :nention, and the Roman Samian ware will be noticed later. Its more recent history may be said to start with Luca della Robbia, who is generally credited, although on slender grounds, with the discovery of tin enamel. In the article on Germany we have already seen that it was probably known there as early as 1283, whilst the Moors in Spain undoubt…
IvICA, in the Balearic Islands, is alluded to by Vargas. who says : "It is much to be regretted that Ivica has ceased to make her famous vases of faience, destined for exportation as well as for local consumption." He gives no information of their nature, and nothing more seems to be known of them.
JACKFIELD, Salop. Jewett states that some years ago a coalpit at Jackfield, which was known not to have been opened for two centuries, was opened, and a small mug of brown earthenware was found, bearing the date 1634. John Thursfield had works there about 1713, and he was succeeded in 1751 by his son Maurice. A white stoneware was made, incised with flowers and ornaments. Dutch tiles were also pro…
JACQUELAINE OF BAVARIA. Her name is associated with the making of stoneware by a curious tradition. Her life seems to have been a stormy one, if not of intrigue, and her fortune at the mercy of any one who coveted it. John of Bavaria obtained' it by conquest and bribery, and his death no sooner restored it to her than it was wrested from her by the Duke of Burgundy, and finally fell into the hands…
JACQUEMART, A.
JACQUES & JULI.IEN.
JANSEN, ALDERMAN.
JANS, VAN DER MEER, ARID.
JAPAN. Comparatively speaking, we knew nothing of Japanese art until the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the collection of goods then exhibited being at once a delight and a revelation. Japanese writers claim that the making of pottery was practised there anterior to B. C. 66o. The followers of a Corean prince, Amano Hiboko, settled in the Province of Onri B. C. 27, where they manufactured a pottery har…
JAPANESE FATENCE.
JASPER.
JEFFORDS, J.
JERONIMO, MAESTRO, toward the end of the fifteenth century, or early in the sixteenth century, had a manufactory of majolica at Forli, Italy.
JERSEY CITY POTTERY COMPANY, Jersey City, N. J. The Jersey within a year or two. In 1829 it was reopened by David and J. Henderson. In 1833 David Henderson organized the American Pottery Company. Here, for the first time in America, printing on white ware was practised. They also made a brown earthenware decorated in reliefs and colored enamels. Daniel Greatbatch, a clever modeler, was employed, …
JEWELED PORCELAIN.
JEWS.
JOHNSON BROTHERS, Hanley. The Charles Street Works, Hanley, were founded by William Mellor in 1758. He made Egyptian black ware, as did his successors, Toft & Wheeling. The works next passed into the hands of Toft & May, and a little later May alone conducted the business. He was succeeded by William Ridgway, who changed the manufacture to that of white ware for the American market. The venture wa…
JOHNSON, DR.
JONES, GEORGE, & SONS. Stoke-unon-Trent. Established by Mr. George Jones in 1861 at the Old Bridge Works. At first white granite only was made, but, the trade increasing, the present Trent Works were erected, and here a general line of goods was and is manufactured. Mr. Jones received valuable assistance from his sons, the oldest, Mr. Frank Jones-Benham, being now regarded as perhaps the best pott…
JOSIAH WEDGWOOD & SONS, Etruria. - On old specimens the main mark is the name impressed in the clay, varying from 1-4 to 1-32 of an inch in height.
JUDEA.
JUNIUS, ISAACK.
K1SHERE, JOSEPH, Mortlake, Surrey.
KAGA. A province of Japan to the northeast of Kioto, cele brated for its wares decorated in rich red and gold. The manufacture was started in the sixteenth century by Tamora Gonzayemon, a Hizen potter, assisted by a painter named Kuzumi .Morikage. The characteristic red and gold ware was not made until 165o, when Godo Saijiro established a kiln at Kutani, where the clay is found from which the gre…
KAHLER, HERMAN A., Noestved, Denmark.
KALPIS.
KAMEYAMA WARE. "This kiln is situated on a hill near Nagasaki.
KAM, GERRITSZ PIETER.
KAM, PIETER GERRITSZ.
KAOLIN.
KARATSU WARE.
KATO TAMIKICHI.
KATSUZO Tsuji, Arita, Japan.
KAWAMOTO MASUKICHI, Seto, Japan.
KEEL, ABRAHAM VAN DER.
KEISER, AELBRECHT CORNELIS VAN.
KEISER, CORNELIS AELBRECHTS VAN, son of the preceding.
KESSEL, AMERENSIE VAN.
KESSEL, JERONIMUS PIETERSZ VAN.
KESSEL, LUCAS PIETERSZ VAN, son of the preceding.
KEST, DIRCK VAN DER.
KICHIBEI BANKO.
KICHIZAYEMON.
KIEL, Denmark.
KIEL, ALBURTUS.
KIHEIJI.
KILLINGHL'SEN, Sledswig.
KILNS.
KING-TEH-CHIN, or KING-TE-TCHIN, is situated in the Province of Kian-si, and is the great pottery center of China. It was celebrated as early as the Tch'in dynasty (577-588) for its china manufactory. About 1004 to 1007 a manufactory was established here for the Emperor Tchin-tsong, and the name of the town changed from Nan-tchang-tchin to its present appellation. The streets are laid out with gre…
KI-SETO WARE.
KLIFTIJUS, HALLEM.
KLIT1AS.
KLOOT, CORNEI.IS VAN DER.
KNAPPER & BLACKHURST, Dalehall, Staffordshire.
KNOETTER, JOHANNES.
KNOWLES, TAYLOR & KNOWLES COMPANY, East Liverpool, Ohio. This potteiy, the largest in America, had its beginning in 1853, when ground was broken by Isaac W. Knowles, the founder of the business, who commenced active operations the year following. Then the only kiln was used alternately for biscuit and glost ware. The power was furnished by a horse. The ware made was yellow ware, known for many yea…
KO-IDSU HONNAMI, a sword connoisseur who died in 1637, erected a kiln and made Raku ware, which, while harder than the original, was much admired by the tea-drinkers.
KONING, HENDRICK and GILLIS DE.
KOOGE, ABRAHAM. Master potter established at Delft from 1632 to 1679, and associated in 1648 with Pieter Joppe Oosterlaan. M. Havard says : "Abraham de Kooge may be considered as one of the greatest of the artists who have made famous the faience of Delft. He was one of the renovators of Holland ceramic art, and the most beautiful plaques that arc attributed to him may be classed among the masterp…
KOZAN MAKUDZU, Tokio.
KRAUT, HANS.
KRUISWEG, ANTHONI.
KULICK, or Culich, JAN JANSZ.
KUNERSBERG, Bavaria.
KURO, HIRASAWA.
KUTANI WARE. Derives its name from Kutani-mura, in the Province of Kafa, where the clay from which it is made is found. An incorrect supposition is that it received the nam "Kutani," meaning "nine valleys," from the fact that there are nine valleys in the vicinity of the factory. The pottery industry was founded in the seventeenth century, and was improved by Goto Saijiro, who introduced a ware wi…
KYLIN.
LACHENAL, ED3ZOND, Paris.
LAEN, JAN VAN DER.
LA FORET, Savoy.
LAKE-DWELLERS.
LAMBETH. Much obscurity hangs over the early potteries of Lambeth. We know that Edward Warner sold potter's clay there to London potters as early as 1668. As we have seen, John Ariens van Hamme (q. z'.) took out a patent in 1676 for making tiles and porcelain "after the way practised in Holland," and had settled in Lambeth. While we have no direct knowledge that salt-glazed stoneware was made at L…
LAMBETH DELFT DISH, 1660. at The Hague - for the manufacture of pottery "after the way practiced in Holland, which has not been practiced in this our Kingdom." This claim is not to be substantiated, as pieces of English delft are in existence dated 1631 and 1634. The Lambeth body was harder than the Dutch and did not absorb much glaze, so that the color of the red body showed through. The glaze, n…
LAMBREQUIN.
LAMP VASE BY CARRIERE-BELLEUSE.MiBtOri allowed the Worcester Porcelain Company to manufacture encaustic tiles under a license, but the Worcester clays were unsuitable, and they abandoned the manufacture and were succeeded by Maw & Co., who shortly after removed to Broseley. Some specimens of majolica ware which had formed part of the collection of the Duke of Buckingham coming into the hands of Mr…