POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

attempted was the application of plain color bands, then
gold lines, and by a gradual development the more elab-
orate decorations were finally introduced. The capacity
of the factory was increased as the growth of the business
required, and in a short time Mr. Moses was successfully
making wares fully equal to any made by the practical
English potters who were his competitors in Trenton.
His present productions are dinner, tea, toilet, and deco-
rated wares of every description. The name of the Glas-
gow Pottery is widely known throughout this country in
connection with the John Hancock cups and saucers used
at the Centennial Tea Parties, which were made exten-
sively just previous to the Exhibition of 1876. Mr. Moses
is also a large producer of white granite and cream-colored
wares, thin hotel and steamboat china of excellent grades,
and has always taken an active part in upholding the pro-
tective tariff on American crockery before the Ways and
Means Committee of Congress.
THE ETRURIA POTTERY.
The Ott & Brewer Company, of Trenton, N. J., now
operate the factory which was built by Messrs. Bloor,
Ott, & Booth, in 1863. Mr. John Hart Brewer, president
of the company, entered the firm in 1865, and, being an
artist himself of considerable ability, soon made his in-
fluence felt in the improvement of methods and elevation
of standards. Until 1876 the chief products of this fac-
tory consisted of white granite and cream-colored ware.
The first attempts in the manufacture of " Belleek
egg-shell china were made by Mr. Brewer in 1882, in con-

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