Castle Espie Pottery.
At Castle Espie, near Comber, county of Down, Mr. Samuel Minland, J.P., some years ago, I am informed by Mr. Patterson, established brick and tile works. Common pottery is now manufactured there from the local red clay. The brown glazed ware consists of dairy vessels, tea-pots, flower vases, and other plain household articles.
Figs. 724 and 725.
Captain Beauclerc, at the exhibition of 1851, exhibited two terra-cotta vases, his own modelling, made in Ireland, of Irish material. They were engraved in the “Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue,” page 257, and are here reproduced, Figs. [724 and 725]. The productions were in two tints; the body of each vase being of a deep red, and the figures of a lighter and much yellower clay.