In 19th century days "Doulton & Watts, Lambeth Pottery," is impressed on similar examples, and in middle 19th century days, under the guidance of Sir Henry Doulton, a revival of artistic stoneware took place, which traditions Messrs. Doulton carry on at the present day.
=IV. VARIEGATED WARE.= Marbled or agate wares (1740-1756), Dwight (of Fulham), John Astbury. The earlier Usually known under surface marbling or combing supplanted by the generic term of "solid agate" ware--a blending of layers _Whieldon ware_. of different coloured clays. Early tortoiseshell plates made by Whieldon. Tortoiseshell and mottled ware also made by Philip Christian at Liverpool, at Leeds, and at Castleford.
_Wedgwood._--Later developments of this ware--vases and important classic pieces in imitation of coloured marbles.
_The imitators of Wedgwood._--Palmer, Neale, and others made this marbled ware. Neale employed with great success sprinkled marbling, touched with gold, on a cream body.
Both Wedgwood and his successors made "solid agate" and also surface-decorated ware of cream body.
(=This ware is described in Chapter V. (Whieldon), and in Chapters VII. and VIII. in regard to Wedgwood and later developments.=)
=V. CREAM WARE.= _Experimental Stage._--Astbury (1725), Whieldon (from 1740), Warburton (Hot By far the largest Lane), Baddeleys (Shelton). variety of English earthenware. Made _Queen's Ware_ perfected by Wedgwood by all potters. The (1765). Wedgwood, Turner, Warburton, standard type of all (Leeds) Messrs. Hartley, Greens & Co., subsequent domestic Liverpool, Swansea, Derby. ware. _In colour creamy or yellowish white. In weight light._
Plain or undecorated. Many of Wedgwood's finest cream ware pieces are undecorated, and Leeds, at first largely imitative, developed a fine quality in design and potting, especially in designs after silversmiths' models.
Decorated by painting. At first painting was sparely used. The style of enamelling used on salt-glaze ware was modified to suit the new cream ware. Later the colours began to emulate those of porcelain. Spode, in particular, copied the latter in earthenware, and cream ware became richly painted and gilded.
Transfer-printed. As the invention of transfer-printing and the perfection of cream ware by Wedgwood were contemporaneous, the Liverpool printers decorated all the early cream ware. But cream ware was subsequently made as well as printed at Liverpool, and printed as well as made in Staffordshire and elsewhere.