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Shattering Leeds myths: Hilary Young welcomes an authoritative survey of the Leeds Pottery, which incisively dispels the many legends that have grown up around this major factory, best known for its creamwares.(Book Review)

Apollo | January 1, 2006 | Copyright

The Leeds Pottery, 17700-1881

JOHN D. GRIFFIN

Leeds Art Collection Fund Two volumes, 75 [pounds sterling]

ISBN 0 300 10625 4

The Leeds Pottery was a major manufacturer of creamware and other types of pottery in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. At its peak, the factory was operating on a huge scale, using up to 9,000 tons of coal a year in 1807-1808, and it was exporting its wares to Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the Low Countries, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Italy, South America and elsewhere. Although best known for the…

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