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The English county of Staffordshire is synonymous with the manufacture of porcelain and ceramic. Staffordshire is uniquely positioned with all the potting soil clay and abundant water supply is essential for the production of fine ceramics.

Potting soil in Staffordshire had an uninterrupted History of over 300 years with many famous names, often very small, family-run potteries. Principal among these are names such as Wedgwood, Spode and Minton, many of these famous names now merged in large international companies.

In 1775 Josiah Wedgwood developed and refined monochrome Jasper ware, and led it on the market and it is his name that we normally with ceramic Jasper Jasper Natural a naturally occurring non-transparent quartz;. red, yellow, brown or dark green Color, used for decorative ornaments and polished as a gemstone.

Fascinated by the ancient Roman cameos and medals in this semi-precious stone carved and with typical determination, worked tirelessly to replicate as Wedgwood Jasper ceramic body. He is known for, with numerous studies conducted systematically and Process tiles of colored jasper carefully experimented with his notes are held today by the Wedgwood Museum Trust.

By 1774, Wedgwood wrote with great Satisfaction that his new jasper white ceramic stoneware body, in fact, could any shade of fine blue, dark lapis lazuli of the most lightweight onyx. It is at this time that we Jasper appears cut, polished and look like jewels set in a wonderful selection of rings, buttons, lockets and bracelets. The large 18. Century English furniture makers sometimes inlaid jasper medallions in wardrobes, writing desks and shelves.

Wedgwood is, of course, the big names when it comes to English pottery and porcelain, but, as mentioned, was the center of English Staffordshire pottery with an estimated 150 factories, large and small, the ceramics in this county with many of these small factories have disappeared, and now with little information about them remain.

The potter, Richard Dudson, came from a family of potters and was also one of the great survivors, with a unique, unbroken history of over 200 years. In 1800 the Dudson pottery Founded descended in direct line since then.

A very fine and elegant, mid-19thcentury, Dudson, light blue and white jasper ware, Box and lid as an accent lamp.

The pale blue jasper, white with classic decorative subjects in Jasper bas-relief. The urn in neoclassical style with garlands deep from rams' heads exposed, the garlands with figures derived from classical antiquity, including Polymnia, the goddess of music, song and dance, Winged Victory, Venus Victrix interspersed with Asklepios, the god of healing, the goddess Venus and Andromache, the wife of the Trojan hero Hector.

The upper limit of the urn with a continuous Limit established classic white jasper, acorns and oak leaves.

The neck and base of the urn with a limit of formal, stiff-leaved, Acanthus. The urn with a domed lid, Knop modeled as an acorn.

This adorable little lamp in original size / good condition.

The lamp a discreet, custom made, gold-plated bronze stand.

This beautiful accent lamp with an ivory silk shade assembled with fine silk georgette overlaid, the bronze, gold-plated finial, custom designed to reflect the glans Knop of the urn.

The ultimate lamp for a desk lady, pretty enough, be called a treat!

By 1850 the total height including shade 19 "/ 48 cm

Richard Dudson was in Staffordshire in 1768 Born in a typical rural economy with the potteries of Staffordshire just come into existence. Market towns and villages are just a few miles apart. Since the Ceramic industry began to grow, gradually began to narrow the gaps between them.

At that time, place names such as Burslem, Etruria, Stoke and Longton small Villages merged in the course of time, "The Potteries" has become. From the early 18th Century, the country had their small pottery workshops and kilns at the edges of these farms and villages.

While we know very little about Richard's early life, it's more than likely that his family moved from a small rural farming village to a thriving center of the ceramic industry.

As the industry developed through the final quarter 18th Century, significant improvements in both operational and made pottery techniques, although by today's standards, the conditions of poor workers were shocking, with six-day week, the standard – one working day from 6.00 bis 06.00 Clock clock.

We know that Richard began work in 1777, probably one of the larger Pottery in Shelton, where he lived. It was old for children aged 8-9 years, their lifetime and Richard usually start would have been, have no exception to this. As a "pot Boy, "he would have learned a lot about using potting soil and colors of pottery, the skill of the potter's wheel, the decorator of the workshop and the final glazing and firing of the finished product.

During this time, the potteries of Staffordshire worked around the clock as the export is overwhelming was going with the command in many parts of Europe, India and North America. Goods were shipped from the port of Liverpool and in the last quarter of the 18th Century, were the most important Exports of goods from Staffordshire for America determined.

While we do not know very much about Richard, other than to believe he had learned his trade, support from the pot boy apprentice to master potter, and finally, we want to know the age of 32 he started his own business in 1800.

The competition among the potteries of Staffordshire was violent and it seems that Richard was surrounded by several large companies, both pottery and porcelain manufacturers such as New Hall and Ridgway them. Richard Sorge was compared to small and it seems however that his company must have been caused by his own efforts, built considerable.

While the backbone, the potteries of Staffordshire earthenware, there are records on a wide range of goods by Dudson factory show. We know that Dudson produced stoneware, cane, pearl ware, and several types of porcelain, which was for such a small factory, a broad spectrum.

Although Josiah Wedgwood with the Invention of the jasper, from the early 19th Century is credited often produce many other manufacturers jasper ware, including James Neale, Elias Mayer and William Adams, some the great names associated with early Staffordshire pottery. Dudson Richard is also included as an early producer of jasper ware and manufactures both types, solid and low beam Jasper.

Solid Jasper, as the name suggests, is completely colored, the different colors with different metal oxides are produced during dipped jasper as a white stoneware, dipped in a vat of metal oxide surface of a recording, technically, an applied slip of colored jasper.

The white Jasper decoration we normally see on a colored jasper, as "applied relief", was made separately in plaster molds of a design and usually fixed in wax carved. Cast of relief was then "on flowery", "apply to" a term used in ceramics, the relief on the surface of the form jasper, before his single fire.

The jasper is known today, the pale blue with white relief decoration. When we see that, it is customary to assume that we at Wedgwood Jasper looking for, but not forgotten, it can not be so!

Richard Dudson died in 1833 with the work passed to his son, Thomas, now a master potter.

Today Dudson manufacture products for an ever growing market and remain a privately owned family business, the oldest in the English tableware industry.

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About the Author

Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co, has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery, with his commercial experience spanning a period of over 45 years,including valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site and is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects. He has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.