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Page 144 - This, sire, is a condition to which those who force you to act contrary to your own good disposition can never reduce me; 'because I am prepared for death., and. because your whole people«;; have not the power to compel a simple potter to bend his knee before images which he has made.
Page 154 - Strangers' table; where ten good dishes to a messe, with plenty of wine of all sorts, of which I drunk none; but it was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor change of trenchers, and drunk out of earthen pitchers, and wooden dishes. It happened that after the lords had half dined, come the French Embassador up to the lords...
Page 165 - It may please your ma"* to graunt unto the said Simpson full power and onelie license to provyde transport and bring into this realm the same or such like drinking pottes ; and the said Simpson will putt in good suretie that it shall not be prejudiciall to anie of your...
Page 201 - Japan'* patterns. MARKS: usually the name in full. 'Mazarin' blue: see Chelsea. 'Merry Man' plates: delftware plates, usually simply decorated, forming a series of six, normally inscribed: (i) 'What is a merry man'; (2) 'Let him do what he can"; (3) 'To entertain his guests'; (4) 'With wine and merry jests' ; (5) 'But if his wife do frown' ; (6) 'All merriment goes down'.
Page 81 - ... and large quantities of broken pieces of earthen vessels have been found on the sites of some of the cities of Judaea; at Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and elsewhere. The Hebrew potters do not seem to have been distinguished in the art, and there are comparatively few notices of it in the scriptures ; but there was a guild of potters at Jerusalem and one of the gates of the city was named after them. Passing from these old oriental nations we find the greatest excellence among the Greeks. The beauty...
Page 122 - although in a great many places of Spain they make excellent faiences, the most esteemed are those of Valencia, which are so well worked and so well gilded.
Page 166 - Fulham, severall new manufactures of earthenwares, called by the names of white gorges, marbled porcellane vessells, statues, and figures, and fine stone gorges and vessells, never before made in England or elsewhere ; and alsoe discovered the mistery of transparent porcellane, and opacous, redd, and darke-coloured porcellane, or china and persian wares, and the mistery of the Cologne or stone wares...
Page 158 - This set me to study how to order my fire so as to make it burn me some pots. I had no notion of a kiln such as the potters burn in, or of glazing them with lead, though I had some lead to do it with ; but I placed three large pipkins and two or three pots in a pile, one upon another, and placed my firewood all round it, with a great heap of embers under them. I plied...
Page 213 - Manufacturing a certain material whereby a ware might be made of the same nature or kind, and equal to, if not exceeding in goodness and beauty, China or Porcelain ware imported from abroad.
Page 169 - ... London. His horse's eyes becoming bad, he applied to an hostler on the road, who told him he would cure the horse and show him what means he used. Accordingly he took a piece of black flint stone and put it into the fire, which to our potter's great astonishment, came out of the fire a most beautiful white, and at the same time struck him with an idea that this fine material might improve the stoneware lately introduced among them. He brought some of the stones home with him, mixed them with...