And shall potters be more careful in educating their children and in giving them the opportunity of seeing and practising their duties than our guardians will be?
A patent was granted to some potters by the name of Van Hamme in 1676.
English potters before Wedgwood's day, to meet the ordinary wants of common life.
Champion appears to have sold his patents and good-will to a partnership of potters about 1777, and Champion himself became their superintendent for a time at Tunstall.
In the decorative work of the Delft potters it seems to me the things to desire are the fine plates and dishes painted, as many of them are, with luminous blues almost equal to the celestial blues of China, such as we see in Fig.
Two other names are known as master-potters of that town--Olery and Roux.
The subject was especially popular with the smaller craftsmen, the makers of bronze statuettes and the potters of Italy and Gaul, who produced terracotta lamps and vases for a large but uncritical public.
At the end of the case are exhibits connected with potters and pottery.
Some are made in the form of a shoe or the sole of a foot, and this is a shape frequently employed by the potters of the Roman period in Italy for stamping their names on vases.
Kusa further occurs as a synonym of the Otattu, or tile-making section of the Nayars, and Kusa Maran as a class of potters in Travancore.
The Telugu potters are usually followers of Vishnu and the Tamilians of Siva, some being also Lingayats, and therefore burying their dead.
At the Mysore census, 1891, some potters described themselves as Gundu (round) Brahmans.
For the following note on a ceremony, in which the potters take part, I am indebted to an essay submitted in connection with the M.
Jensen notes [81] that "potters are never Vaishnavas; but potters at Srirangam were compelled by the Vaishnava Brahmans to put the Vaishnava mark on their foreheads; otherwise the Brahmans would not buy their pots for the temple.
All the potters claim an impure Brahmanical descent, telling the following story regarding their origin.
The usual manner in which most of the Madras potters bake their wares is as follows.
At the village of Karigeri in the North Arcot district, there is carried on by some of the local potters an interesting industry in the manufacture of ornamental pottery, for which a medal was awarded at the Delhi Darbar Exhibition.
Further details relating to the South Indian potters will be found under the heading Kusavan.
On the whole, the potters are a poor class compared with the Kammalar class, which includes jewellers, metal-workers and wood-workers.
Jagor noticed that the potters of Salem communicated to their ware a kind of polish, exactly like that seen on some of the specimens of antique pottery found in cromlechs.
It was ascertained that the Salem potters use a seed for producing the polish, which was determined by Surgeon-General G.
The northern and southern potters differ in that the former use a wheel of earthenware, and the latter one made of wood.
Some of the potters still wear the sacred thread, like the Kammalars or artisan class.
Bideford"[38] is scarcely supportable, since the Barnstaple potters also used the same Bideford gravel.
Low Country immigrant potters were responsible for two other ceramic innovations elsewhere in England--stoneware and majolica.
However, the jugs differ stylistically to a marked degree, suggesting that later potters were not affected by the influences that appear in the earlier work (fig.
He noted that the potters applied "the galena native sulphide of lead for the glaze, no doubt originally dusted on to the ware, as with the older potters elsewhere.
The clay with which all the potters worked came from three similar deep clay deposits in a valley running parallel with the River Taw in the parishes of Tawstock and Fremington between Bideford and Barnstaple.
From an esthetic point of view, the crowning achievement of the North Devon potters was their sgraffito ware, examples of which in Brannam's window display have already been noted.
Possibly the modern potters use the church to pray for success in their baking, just as the ancient potters used the great temple of Viracocha.
It occurs to me that possibly this flow destroyed some of the clay beds from which the ancient potters got their precious material.
Inca sculptors and potters rarely employed the human body as a motif.
It would have been perfectly natural for the prehistoric potters to have desired to placate the presiding divinity, not so much perhaps out of gratitude for the clay as to avert his displeasure and fend off bad luck in baking pottery.
The wheel was early adopted by the Grecian potters as a means of producing form and although molds were sometimes used, the wheel was, to all intents and purposes, the sole method of manufacture.
The use of tin and lead in glazing was known to the Arabian and Moorish potters but these ingredients were not abundant in the East.
If the Delft potters had burned their enamel in order to make the painting easy, the world would never have enjoyed the tender tone of blue for which this pottery is famous.
Several individual workers in France have also pursued this plan, designing and executing the pieces which have made the French artist-potters famous.
The English potters preferred to use clays which were almost white, and after glazing a decoration in brilliant colors was sometimes added.
Probably some famous potters employed assistants either to make the pieces or to decorate but it does not appear that there was any reproduction, at least, during the best period.
In the single-color class it is evident that the potters were not at all sure of their results.
Another form of the kick wheel is used in Europe and is, in fact, the original wheel used by the French and German potters in the seventeenth century.
At the southern end of the mounds are the remains of the kilns in which the potters of the Roman and Byzantine age baked their vases of blue porcelain.
When the Greek garrison was established in the neighbourhood at Daphnae, a colony of Cyprian potters settled at Am.
A walled lane leads down from Bab F'touh to a lower slope, where the Fazi potters have their baking-kilns.
Thus the frank frontal attack of the Persians on their absorbent ground or of the potters of Delft on their unfired tin glaze is never attempted, and probably never can be attempted in the factory of to-day.
The success of the German ceramists led to a wide patronage of potters by kings and princes which quickly spread the knowledge of porcelain throughout Europe.
The wide scope of its decoration, both painted and modelled, pointed the way to most potters of the West during the heyday of European pottery.
The copper and silver lustres of the eighteenth-century Staffordshire potters were thin metallic films over the whole surface of the glaze.
There is often among young potters a false pride that prevents them using, and among oldpotters acknowledging the use of, the manufactured article.
In Mediaeval England, when pottery making was at a low ebb, the monasteries and travelling guilds of potters produced splendid encaustic tiles.
The wares and the potters of Italy penetrated north into Europe, to France, the Holy Roman Empire and Britain, starting or stimulating what was to prove an overwhelming flood of production.
No doubt the now primitive kick wheel, much as used by the potters of the Renaissance, will be found good enough for us.
A naive and unpretentious form of this decoration is seen in the stoneware and salt-glazed pottery of the eighteenth-century English potters and the jolly Bellarmines of earlier times.
For this purpose some potters finish off with wood which gives a long flame free from sulphur and clears the glaze.
It is in this department of potting, with its surprises, difficulties, and disappointments, its rare but exciting successes, that for most potters the greatest interest lies.
Here we have tried to indicate the chief characteristics of clays and to make clear the inevitable tendency of all potters who seek an imperishable medium for their craft towards a purer body and a higher fire.
Wood carvers, silversmiths, leather workers, glass blowers and potters fashioned their ornamental things after the living models they saw about them, in the days in which they worked.
With this ware the Staffordshire potters came closer to their goal of emulating porcelain.
The dominant position attained by the Staffordshire potters in the 18th century is due to unremitting efforts to achieve the whiteness of porcelain in their native products.
The stoneware potterswho worked in the vicinity of Grenzhausen in the Westerwald in a tributary of the Rhine Valley held a far-flung market until the mid-18th century.
It was not until the Staffordshire potters brought out their own salt-glazed whitewares that the colorful blue-and-gray German products suffered a decline.
Francesco in 1501, both designed of Gardutia, potters (figuli) at Urbino.
Potters clay mingled with potsherds, moistened with water, and baked in a violent fire.
The kilns were originally built on Korean models, and the potters in Satsuma remained a class apart, not being allowed to marry with the outside world.
Looking at these facts, does it appear improbable that Moorish wares and Moorish potters may have reached Italy from Majorca?
Piccolpasso, or the Cavaliere Cipriano Piccolpasso Durantino, who wrote in Italy, in 1548, gives very minute information regarding the processes of the potters of his time and country.
The Italian potters gradually increased the heat for four hours, and allowed the ware to remain at a white-heat for twelve hours, and then to cool.
When the contents of the kiln were taken out, they were found to be all that the emperor desired, and the rigor from which the potters had suffered was abated.
Possibly some wanderer to Palestine and the East or to the Saracenic settlements in the South of Europe, or some stranger from these "foreign parts," may have initiated the German potters in the higher secrets of the art.
To whatever individual or city the credit may be due, the wheel was used by Grecian potters from time immemorial.
The early pottery of Gallia has been variously viewed, but there seems no reason for withholding from the ancient Celtic potters the credit of having adopted a high and pure standard of art before the Roman power was established.
The way to antiquity having thus been opened up, the Danish potters widened the range of their art, and found in Etruria and Egypt abundant models for imitation.
Aragon to the Saracen potters of Xativa (San Felipe) relieving them from servitude on payment yearly of one besant for each kiln.
In panels on the base the potters of all ages are seen at work--Egyptian, Greek, and modern.
The hexagonal form, as well as the general features of the decoration, were followed and made familiar to Europeans by the potters of Delft.
At Strehla, in 1565, the potters were so well skilled in the working of terra-cotta, that they had made a pulpit of that material.
The biga, quadriga, scenes from the Iliad and mythology, appear just as they do on the works of the master potters of antiquity.
This supposition is borne out by the fact that a few years ago a number of American potters attempted to make porcelain with kaolin brought from the South, and in every instance failed.
It is curious to find that to another accident the Staffordshire potters were indebted for the discovery of the value of calcined flint mixed in the paste.
It is easy to imagine the potters toasting their lovely co-worker and superintendent, and, in the excess of their admiration and loyalty, tossing away the flagons, that they might never be drained to a less worthy toast.
Its origin was an attempt on the part of Dutch potters to imitate, in a cheaper form, Chinese and Japanese wares.
There was another and perhaps more potent factor in the decline of the Dutch Delft industry; the very success of Delft potters became their ruin.
The idea of the decorations probably came, in the first place, from the fact that English potters were decorating crockery with local subjects, in order to catch the American trade.
He possessed the faculty of securing the services of potters of unusual worth, and throughout his management, which continued until his death in 1796, he maintained in his output a standard of pure English art work of the highest order.
English potters delighted to depict Bonaparte, but they seldom gave him the attractive countenance of this jug.
These potters lived in hovels, and, what is worse, were quite content with their lot.
There were breweries at Staffordshire before there were potteries, but now thepotters made jugs and pots for the brewers.
What I feel that it ought to mean is something like this:-- "You live at Potters Bar and I live at Petersham.
I suspect that the pieces made by modern potters serve to supply the wants of the collectors rather than to meet the requirements of traditional art.
They comprised white, black, red, and various shades of brown, and were applied to the surfaces of the vessels by means of brushes not inferior in efficiency to those employed by the potters of more enlightened races.
If this is correct, then the true explanation probably is that on this spot only the one variety of pottery was made, the painted pottery of the same locality, if such was in use, being made by potters in other parts of the village.
The preliminary steps are with all primitive potters in a general sense the same.
The aesthetic tendencies of these potters are well shown by their essays in engraving.
This was a favorite idea with the ancient potters and may be seen on both exterior and interior surfaces of a variety of vessels.
These potters have certainly, at times, employed them for purposes of embellishment.
A fair idea of the accuracy of these potters in this direction will be conveyed by the series of heads shown in Fig.
These potters dealt with the human figure in a very bold manner for savages.
He reproduced lines and designs in decoration, but invented the "bodies," that is to say, the materials from which the potters moulded his wares.
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