[9] This ware turned yellow with the glaze.
[10] The uncoloured lead glaze generally gave a warm yellow tint to the ware.
[11] The manganese lead glaze darkened the ware to a rich brown. It produced the mottled effect by being dabbed or dusted on in patches.
[12] M. Solon explains this method of reckoning as follows: “Art of the Old English Potter,” p. 32. “The unit was represented by a dozen small pieces, and that unit served as the basis of reckoning for all the rest. For instance, a dish might have been worth a ‘dozen’; a very large dish ‘counted 2 dozen’; of bowls, jugs, cups, and other articles of middle sizes it required 2, 3 or 4 to make a dozen. The potter knew at once the value of the contents of his oven by the number or ‘dozens’ put in; while the workman could easily calculate his wages by the number of ‘dozen’ he made in the week.... So convenient was this method of reckoning that it is kept up to this day in many manufactories both in England and on the Continent.”
[13] This Act was passed in 1661, which would make the date of Plot’s visit to the Potteries 1675-7.
[14] Lawton Park is on the Cheshire side of Mow Cop, only six miles from Burslem.
[15] S. Shaw, “Hist. Staffs. Potteries.” p. 109.
[16] “Philosophical Transactions,” vol. xvii, 1693, p. 699.
[17] Burton’s “English Earthenware,” p. 77.
[18] Burton, op. cit. 76.