The illustrated guide to Masons patent ironstone China

The illustrated guide to Masons patent ironstone China
The related ware – ‘Stone China’, ‘New Stone’, ‘Granite China’- and their manufacturers
Geoffrey A. Godden
175 pagina’s
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 1971
Afmeting: 16 x 25,50 cm
ISBN: 0-257-65117-9 / 0257651179

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Blurb ‘The illustrated guide to Masons patent ironstone China’
This copiously illustrated book is mainly concerned with the Mason family of potters and with the nineteenth-century ceramic body internationally known as “Tronstone?
The emergence of the heavy but very durable earthenware bodies variously termed “Ironstone China’, “New Stone’, ‘Stone China’ and “Granite China’ is also traced, and the many other manufacturers of this
type of ware are discussed and listed

Among hitherto unpublished material also incorporated in this book are descriptions and prices obtained from two sales catalogues -one of I8I8 and the other of 1822- listing more than I,80o separate lots of early Mason’s Patent Ironstone China.
From these catalogues a clear picture has been built up of Mason’s varied products and of his shapes
and patterns, and the many illustrations bring this picture to life.
Further details are given of 135 other manufacturers of Ironstone-type bodies.
The working periods of these firms are given, as well as details of the marks employed.