Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GREEN-GLAZED WARE 1752-1795 GREEN ware, that is, a body covered with a green glaze, had long been made in England. Indeed, the process had come down from the Roman potters, but with the decline of tile-making the secret had been lost. Whieldon and some of the other Burslem potters had taken up the manufacture of the green ware again, but their method of obtaining the colour was to stain the body with oxide of copper and then apply a glaze made of lead, water and flint. To Wedgwood is ascribed the " invention " of the green glaze which through his experimenting finally became so successful. Miss Meteyard gives the formula for Wedgwood's green glaze as follows: " Flint glass, 6. "| Red lead, 2. Vitrified. White enamel, 4.) Calcined copper, %2- This will be a blue green and will require a good deal of yellow ground with it to make it grass green." The colour of this glaze as perfected by Wedgwood is extremely brilliant and beautiful, and marks the great advance in the matter of glaze which Wedgwood made even so early in his career. He appreciated far more keenly than many of his contemporaries the advantage of preparing his materials with the greatest care and trusting less tochance than was common in the Potteries. Under his supervision the wares put out from the Whieldon works became much more popular than before, and articles which hitherto had never been attempted were successfully made and put on the market. While Whieldon himself seems to have had small initiative and inventive power, he had the sagacity to procure for his works the best assistance possible. Josiah Spode the elder, William Greatbach, Garner and Barker were his apprentices at various times; Aaron Wood modelled for him, and Wedgwood made moulds for him as well as improved many proces...