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Article: Stoneware. (designs and manufacturers of vitreous earthenware) (Interior Design Market Antiques)
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- Interior Design
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- December 1, 1992
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Stoneware is a vitreous earthenware fired at such a high temperature that it becomes as hard as stone and impervious to liquids. First made in China, it was imported into England from Germany in the form of grayish-white bottles from Siegburg known as schnellen, and mottled brown jugs from Cologne called tyger ware. In 1671 John Dwight of Fulham took out a patent for the manufacture of stoneware like the Rhineland variety. He created many pieces of brownware and redware before he developed the more popular white salt-glazed stoneware, but, with the exception of several pieces in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, few examples of his innovative pottery have survived.
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