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vertisements of kaolin, and we may therefore conclude
that hard porcelain was not attempted. The Bow works
at that period were making little but blue and white china,
as was the case with all of the early English factories,
which employed almost exclusively lapis lazuli and zaffre
to color beneath the glaze. It is curious, however, to note
what Messrs. Bonnin and Morris assert in their petition
in relation to the wares produced in Great Britain, be-
cause the fame of Josiah Wedgwood's Basaltes or Egyp-
tian Black Ware, first made in 1766, and the earlier
productions of the Etruria works, which began operations
in June of 1769, should have reached America previous to
1771. For several years before the latter date Chelsea
had been turning out some fine porcelain exquisitely
moulded and decorated in several colors. At other fac-
tories throughout England artistic china was also made to
a limited extent with polychrome decoration. Previous
to the year 1770 the Bow factory had commenced to use
gold and colors over the glaze, but this fact may not have
been known to the American potters. W1ehrany of
the ware produced here was ornamented above thelgaze
in colors is not known, because we have not been able to
positive y denti pyanyjieces of this character, although
several examples, embellished with baskets of roses in
natural colors and other floral decorations, are claimed to
have been made at the Southwark factory. In the light
of all the evidence which we possess, we can only be cer-
tain that cream-colored ware was made here, both in plain
white and decorated in blue. An example ofthe latter is
a small white ware fruit-basket in the cabinet of the

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