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Staffordshire pottery and its history

Chapter 19: APPENDIX IV.
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Traces the development of the North Staffordshire pottery industry from small household manufacture to factory-based production, examining the local resources and social conditions that concentrated the trade. The narrative surveys technical and stylistic innovations such as salt-glaze wares, cream-coloured earthenware, printed blue patterns, and the work of leading firms and innovators, and discusses organization changes including the rise of factories, steam power, labor unrest, and the growth of related industries like tile and porcelain production. Chapters combine documentary research, maps, illustrations, and biographical sketches to map changing methods, markets, and artistic developments.

APPENDIX IV.

Nature of Total Pottery Production for Home and Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom in 1907. Of this production less than 5 per cent. comes from Scotland and Ireland, and about two-thirds of the whole is produced in North Staffordshire.

Home. Foreign. Total.
Earthenware, Semi-Porcelain and Majolica 1,683,000[219] 1,545,000[219] 3,228,000
Sanitary Ware 472,000[219] 300,000[219] 772,000
Red Pottery, Stoneware, Brown Ware 331,000 291,000 622,000
Porcelain, China and Parian 830,000 195,000 1,025,000
Tiles—White, Cream, Glazed or Decorated 362,000[219] 80,000[219] 442,000
Tiles—For Floors, Pavements and Mosaics 55,000[219] 78,000[219] 133,000
Jet, Rockingham and Glazed Terra Cotta Ware 250,000 3,000 253,000
Electric and Chemical Ware, Crucibles and Furniture Fittings 365,000[219] 181,000 546,000
Tobacco Pipes[220] ? ? 90,000
Bricks and Fireclay Goods[220] ? ? 64,000
Potters’ Materials 213,000 ? 213,000
Other processes of partial manufacture 146,000 Nil. 146,000
Total 4,885,000 £2,649,000 £7,534,000