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2020-21, Book
"Designs of Sundry Articles of Queens or Cream-Colou-r’d Earthen-Ware Manufactured By Hartley, Greens, and Co. at Leeds Pottery, With a Great Variety of Other Articles"
2020-21, Book

"Designs of Sundry Articles of Queens or Cream-Colou-r’d Earthen-Ware Manufactured By Hartley, Greens, and Co. at Leeds Pottery, With a Great Variety of Other Articles"

Date1814
OriginEngland, Yorkshire, Leeds
MediumLaid paper; leather
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund
Object number2020-21
DescriptionLeeds Pottery Pattern Book with Designs for Creamware. 72 engraved plates, with 269 designs. Two of the plates are folding. (Plates are numbered 1 to 29, and 32 to 71, with two plates numbered 52.) Quarter calf, marbled boards; 1814 watermarks found throughout.
Label TextPattern books and trade catalogues provide a unique glimpse into the world of goods in the 18th and 19th centuries. They shed light on manufacturing techniques, period object terminology, and buying and selling from the perspective of manufacturers, retailers, and consumers. This Leeds Pottery Pattern Book relates directly to ceramic objects in Colonial Williamsburg's collection marked by the Leeds Pottery and helps us identify unmarked objects as products of that manufactory. The book is not only a wonderful graphic resource, it is also a window into the consumer revolutions of the 18th and early 19th centuries.