Early Ceramics
Sir,—Mrs le Cren’s “amazement” at your article on October 11 was due to the fact that you had mentioned that brown Wedgwood preceded blue. I quote again from Josiah Wedgwood’s original patent of November 16, 1769: “. . . for the purpose of
ornamenting earthen and porcelainware with an encaustic gold bronze . . . and shining black. . . .” The first Wedgwood ware was brown and black. Neither I nor “The Press” writer mentioned anything about the “printing process.” As for the willow pattern, I have already stated all relevant facts in my first letter. Being “off the beat” seems to be a position that Mrs le Cren speaks from with personal experience. I refuse to carry on any further correspondence on the strength of random quotes from Honey. May I suggest that Mrs le Cren would find it profitable to read some other authorities, Chaffers for one, who preceded Honey by nearly a century and from whom the latter no doubt obtained much material?—Yours, etc., G. A. DE LABERBIS. October 17, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29956, 18 October 1962, Page 3
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