Figure 15  Plate, Wedgwood, Burslem, England, 1914. Bone china. D. 9 1/4". Signed lower right: “J P Thorley 1914.” Mark on reverse: printed Portland vase. Thomas Allen, a ceramic painter and head of the painting department at Wedgwood, prepared a sketch book of his original drawings and watercolors which remained at the factory when he left, a short time before Thorley went to apprentice there. Among the illustrations Thorley copied from Allen’s book are this one, of a young Scot playing a bagpipe, and the lass in a field on the plate illustrated in fig. 16.