This is true of Tunis and the potteries of Nabeul.
It was just like James to have planted his endeavour down in the stagnant dust and rust of potteries and foundries, where no illusion could bloom.
The Natcha-Kee-Tawaras were due in the third week in January, arriving from the Potteries on the Sunday evening.
There is little traffic of importance going on in the port of Antibes; mostly the shipping of the product of the potteries at Vallauris and neighbouring towns.
Vallauris is what one might call a manufacturing suburb of Cannes, a town of potteries and potters.
The potteries of the Golfe Jouan, of which Vallauris is the headquarters, are famous, and their product is known by connoisseurs the world over.
Finally, we have the most formidable rival to our potteries in the extreme dexterity of the English artisans.
Pyrometric balls of red clay, coated with a very fusible lead enamel, are employed in the English potteries to ascertain the temperature of the glaze kilns.
In the district of the Potteries itself the following museums have representative collections of special varieties of Staffordshire ware.
But it must not be forgotten that, when once the fashion for "Whieldon ware" became general, other potteries came into line.
The former who stayed at his house in thePotteries sat for this bust, which is a fine piece of portraiture.
Although only a young man, he interested the influential people in the neighbourhood of the potteries and the roads were improved and water transit provided as an outlet for goods.
At first, of course, the remoteness of the Potteries from the West accounted for this, but clay was brought by sea from Bideford to Chester and carried overland to Staffordshire, but not the growan stone nor Cornish kaolin.
In the town are silk, cotton, and cloth mills, and in the suburbs potteries where a coarse kitchen ware is made.
Its oxide is used in the Potteries for giving a soft brown tint to china and earthenware, and it is also employed for the production of nickel salts for plating.
It is not my purpose to attempt a detailed history of the immense pottery industries which have been developed in and about Staffordshire--potteries which, for variety and extent, have never been equaled, unless perhaps in China.
Before the end of the eighteenth century many potteries were established in various parts of the country, but, so far as is now known, no articles were produced except the ordinary coarser kinds of household utensils.
There is no question that at one time the potteries of Delft had a considerable influence upon the work at Rouen, and much that was then made [Illustration: FIG.
Other potteries produced wares similar to the Stonington and Norwalk.
The evening was fine, and Kate stood for a long while watching the people surging out of the potteries towards Piccadilly.
Her account of the visit to the potteries proved very amusing, but before she told him of their fall amid the cups and saucers she made Montgomery swear he would never breathe a word.
She had never been out of the Potteries in her life; she had been born, reared and married here.
Kate sat quite still, almost unconscious of the life around her, remembering that it was on her way from the potteries that she had learnt that there is a life within us deeper and more intense than the life without us.
Everyone was now tired, and the clergymen, who, since the discovery of the newspaper, had been showing signs that they regarded their visit to the potteries as ended, pulled out their watches and whispered that their time was up.
The potteries and the hills were as the recollections of childhood, dim and unimportant.
Thus in the groups of Staffordshire figures, now much sought after, we learn something of the story of life in the Potteries in the closing years of the nineteenth century.
The decoration on the china cream jugs was frequently floral, but in those made in the leading potteries there was a distinct following of the public style.
The 18th-century potteries of Charlestown, Massachusetts, which also had wide markets, were clustered along the harbor shore amid a welter of wharves and warehouses.
The North Devon potteries were heavily committed to water transportation, and at least two of the kilns at Bideford in North Devon in the 17th century, for example, were located near the water in what were then densely settled areas.
The periods during which these potteries flourished are consecutive, or rather overlapping, but not contemporaneous, the former being practically coincident with the 1st century A.
The ornamented vases produced in these potteries are, as we have said, almost confined to two or three varieties, which follow one another chronologically.
An interesting offshoot from the Talavera potteries is to be found in the tin-enamelled wares made at Puebla, Mexico, from the early 17th century.
Ruvo was famous for its red clay, and remains of furnaces and potteries have been found there.
The term has this much of truth in it, that the group may be said to stand at the head of, and in direct relation to, the long series of painted vases produced in the Athenian potteries for some two centuries afterwards.
In 1840 some discs of terracotta, strengthened with spokes and a leaden tire, came to light on the site of the ancient potteries at Arezzo, and these had evidently been used as potter’s wheels.
Hence it is fitting that Corinth and its famous potteriesshould be the subject of our next section.
The Campanian potteries, improperly but commonly called the Etruscan, and the ancient Greek wares, belong to the class of soft and lustrous potteries which are no longer manufactured.
It is estimated that our English potteries not only supply the demand of the United Kingdom, but export ware to the value of nearly a million and a half annually.
In order to secure every access from the potteries to the eastern and western coasts of the island, Wedgwood proposed, and, with the aid of others whom he induced to join him, carried out the Grand Trunk Canal between the Trent and the Mersey.
There are seven allusions to potters and potteries in the Old Testament, three in the New Testament, and four in the Deutero-Canonical Books.
Many of the potteries in which they were fabricated, have been clearly ascertained.
But would the atmosphere of the Potteries be damp enough to quench that flame?
But though the score of people in the Potteries with whom we are concerned are but individually selected from the swarm that is provincial England, they are none the less intensely individual.
They lived in the Potteriesbefore the Potteries had acquired that big black spot on the map which now dignifies and degrades their existence.
We may also add, with respect to the potteries in Staffordshire, that this evil discourages merchants abroad from dealing with those manufacturers, and creates innumerable misunderstandings between them and the manufacturers.
On the Weaver the nearest available point to the Potteries was Winsford Bridge, a distance of twenty miles by road.
Of the many districts benefitted it was, perhaps, the Potteries that received the maximum of advantage.
Of conditions such as those to be found in the Potteries at the period in question one gets some glimpses in William Hutton's "History of Birmingham" (1781).
On the Trent the principal river-port for the Potteries was Willington, about four miles east of Burton-on-Trent, and over thirty miles by road from the Potteries.
There are so many beautiful potteries now that it is possible to something harmonious for every flowerpot.
The potteries of Staffordshire may be almost said to have been created by Josiah Wedgwood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potteries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
