1. William Burton, Porcelain: Its Nature, Art, and Manufacture (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1906), p. 172. 2. Reference to Du Halde’s history and its publication in English was taken from Ann Finer and George Savage, eds., The Selected Letters of Josiah Wedgwood (London: Cory, Adams & MacKay, 1965), p. 162. 3. Kenneth Hudson, The History of English China Clays: Fifty Years of Pioneering and Growth (Newton Abbot, England: David and Charles, 1969), p. 16. 4. Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century (New York: Thomas Yoseloff Publisher, 1964), p. 125. 5. Ibid., pp. 119–22. 6. Ibid., p. 122. 7. Geoffrey A. Godden, Godden’s Guide to Ironstone, Stone and Granite Wares (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999), p. 57. 8. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, pp. 179–81. 9. Ibid., p. 186. 10. Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain, p. 123. 11. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, p. 179. 12. Lorna Weatherill, The Growth of the Pottery Industry in England: 1660–1815 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986), p. 451, table a1-7. 13. John Bedfor, Chelsea and Derby China (New York: Walker and Co., 1967), pp. 9–10. 14. Lawrence Branyan, Neal French and John Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain: 1751–1790 (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1981), p. 16. 15. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, pp. 79, 84. 16. Ibid., p. 92, letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Thomas Bentley, 19 May 1770. 17. Simeon Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries; and the Rise and Progress of the Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain; with References to Genuine Specimens, and Notice of Eminent Potters (Hanley, Staffordshire, England, 1829; reprint, Great Neck, N.Y.: Beatrice C. Weinstock, 1968), p. 178. 18. Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain. 19. Ibid., pp. 17–20. 20. Ibid. Table 2 was taken from p. 20. 21. Geoffrey A. Godden, Caughley and Worcester Porcelains: 1775–1800 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, Ltd., 1981), p. 15. 22. Branyan, French, and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, p. 17. 23. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, p. 75. 24. Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries, pp. 192–93. 25. Hugh Owen, Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol: Being a History of True Porcelain by Richard Champion with a Biography compiled from Private Correspondence, Journals, and Family Papers (Bristol, England: Bell & Dalby, 1873), pp. 353–54. 26. Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries, p. 221. 27. This list was reproduced in Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries, pp. 207–208, and in Arnold Mountford, “Documents Relating to English Ceramics of the 18th and 19th Centuries,” Journal of Ceramic History 8, no. 99 (1975): 4–8. 28. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, p. 106. 29. Ibid., p. 108. 30. “Prices of queen’s ware or cream coloured earthenware, established through the Potteries, from February 2d, 1787”: a printed list bound with The Ruin of Potters, and the Way to Avoid it (Lane-end, Staffordshire, England: T. Orton, 1804). 31. Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries, p. 210. 32. Ibid., p. 212. 33. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, p. 204. 34. Extant price-fixing lists for the Staffordshire potters are known for the years 1770, 1783, 1787, 1795, 1796, 1808, 1814, 1825, 1846, 1853, and 1859. These price-fixing agreements are discussed in George L. Miller, “A Revised Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English Ceramics from 1787 to 1880,” Historical Archaeology 25, no. 1 (1991): 1–25. 35. I would like to thank Jonathan Rickard for providing me with copies of his abstractions from a collection (Barks Library, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England) of fourteen StaVordshire directories dating from 1781 to 1828/29. Jonathan Rickard, “The Makers of Pottery and Porcelain in Staffordshire: 1781–1841” (unpublished manuscript). 36. Surveys of probate records for Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, did not find any listing of pearlware or China glaze. Marley Brown, “Ceramics from Plymouth, 1621–1800: The Documentary Record,” Ceramics in America, edited by Ian M. G. Quimby, Winterthur Conference Report (1972) (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, for The Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum), pp. 41–74; and Barbara Gorely Teller, “Ceramics in Providence, 1750–1800,” Antiques 94, no. 4 (October 1968): 570–77. 37. The Valuable Receipts of the late Mr. Thomas Lakin, with Proper and necessary Directions for their Preparation and use in the Manufacture of Porcelain, Earthenware, and Stone China (Leeds, England: Edward Baines, 1824), printed for Mrs. Lakin; Simeon Shaw, The Chemistry of the several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds used in Manufacturing Porcelain, Glass, and Pottery (1837; reprint, London: Scott Greenwood and Co., 1900); William Evans, Art and History of the Potting Business, compiled from the most practical sources, for the especial use of working potters, by their devoted friend, William Evans (Shelton, England: The Examiner Office, 1846), reprinted in Journal of Ceramic History, no. 2 (1970): 21–42. 38. Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries; John Ward, The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (1843; reprint, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England: Webberley, Ltd., 1984); Llewellynn Jewitt, The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; Notice of his Works and their Productions, Memories of the Wedgwood and other Families and a History of the Early Potteries of Staffordshire (London: Virtue Brothers & Co., 1865); Llewellynn Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain (1883; reprint, Poole, Dorset, England: New Orchard Editions, Ltd., 1985); Eliza Meteyard, The Life of Josiah Wedgwood from his Private Correspondence and Family Papers...With an introductory Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England, 2 vols. (1865–1866; reprint, Yorkshire, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1980); William Chaffers, Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain (1863; reprint, London: William Reeves, Bookseller, Ltd., 1965). 39. Bevis Hillier, Master Potters of the Industrial Revolution: The Turners of Lane End (London: Cory, Adams and MacKay, 1965); Donald Towner, The Leeds Pottery (London: Cory, Adams and MacKay, 1965). 40. The letters around the development of Wedgwood’s Pearl White are discussed in George L. Miller, “Origins of Josiah Wedgwood’s ‘Pearlware,’” Northeast Historical Archaeology 16 (1987): 83–95; reprinted in Thirty-Fourth Annual Wedgwood International Seminar: Pottery and Porcelain on Peach Street (Conference held in Atlanta, 1989), pp. 167–184. 41. Ivor Noël Hume, “Pearlware: Forgotten Milestone of English Ceramic History,” Antiques 95, no. 3 (1969): 390–397. 42. I am indebted to Rodney Hampson for sending me his article “The China Glaze,” which provides the information from John Leslie’s twenty-thousand-word biography of Josiah Wedgwood (Moseley manuscript wm 1127, Wedgwood Archives, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, England, n.d.). See Rodney Hampson, “The China Glaze,” Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter, no. 37 (March 1980): 11–12. 43. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, p. 350. 44. Ibid., pp. 170–72. 45. Hampson, “The China Glaze,” p. 12. 46. Ibid. 47. Finer and Savage, Selected Letters, pp. 188–89. 48. Ibid., pp. 220–21. 49. Ibid., p. 231. 50. Ibid., p. 237. For a more detailed discussion of the pressure on Wedgwood to develop his whiteware, see Miller, “Origins of Josiah Wedgwood’s ‘Pearlware,’” pp. 83–95. 51. Robin Reilly, Wedgwood (London: McMillan, 1989), p. 99. 52. Ivor Noël Hume, “Corrections and Additions,” Antiques 96 (December 1969): 922. 53. Chaffers, Marks & Monograms, p. 29. 54. Noël Hume, “Pearlware,” p. 393. 55. John L. Seidel, “‘China Glaze’ Wares on Sites from the American Revolution: Pearlware before Wedgwood?” Historical Archaeology 24, no. 1 (1990): 82–95. 56. David Barker, William Greatbatch: A Staffordshire Potter (London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 1991), p. 167. 57. For a discussion of this, see Miller, “A Revised Set of CC Index Values,” pp. 1–25.