POTTERY AND PORCELAIN

The name of the establishment was changed to Tke
Jersey City Pottery about forty years ago. Many of the
best potters of the old school in the United States learned
their trade at this factory.  In 1848 large quantities of
druggists' jars were being made. After several alterations
in the firm name,
Messrs. Rouse and
Turner became pro-
prietors.  The for-
mer, Mr. John Owen
Rouse, came    from
the Derby Works,
England, nearly forty
years ago. Mr. Na-
thaniel Turner was
b o r n  and  reared
among the Stafford-
shire potteries at
Tunstall, and after
his death, in 1884, the
business was carried
on by Mr. Rouse
alone. The prod-
ucts of the factory
for sonie years were
DECORATED BY MR. EDWARD LYCETT.
mainly ornamental
forms in white biscuit and glazed ivory white for deco-
rators, and porous cups for telegraphic purposes, of
which some 5,000 were produced weekly. Of the plain
shapes in ivory white ware, one of the most graceful is
the " Worcester" vase, so-called because it is a repro-

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