POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

George Walker, who was associated with William
Billingsley, his father-in-law, in some of the most im-
portant ceramic enterprises at Worcester, Nantgarw,
Swansea, and Coalport, came to America with his family
about 1835, after the death of his partner, and about
i85o established a pottery at West Troy, N. Y., which
was named " The Temperance Hill Pottery."  Although
in Great Britain he had been identified with the higher
art movements in the porcelain factories of the above-
mentioned places, and is said to have first introduced the
reverberating enamel kiln at the Worcester works, he
seems to have been content to engage in the manufacture
of Rockingham ware, in a small way, on this side of the
Atlantic. His principal products were tea-pots, pitchers,
and toys, which he continued to make for a number of
years. He died in poverty some ten or twelve years ago,
at an advanced age.
The stoneware pottery now operated by Messrs.
Shepley & Smith, at West Troy, was established in 1831
by Mr. Sanford S. Perry. After passing through several
changes, the business has grown to considerable propor-
tions, the staple products now being stone, ale, beer, and
ink bottles, snuff jars, and the usual lines of Rockingham
ware.
Mr. Moro Phillips started a stoneware pottery on the
James River, Virginia, about six miles below Wilson's
Landing, in 1850, on a property which he had recently
acquired, on which were large deposits of suitable clay.
In 1853 the works were moved to Philadelphia, at the
northwest corner of Chestnut and Thirty-first streets.

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