ENGLISH SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE ca. 1672, John Dwight established the first salt-glazed stoneware manufacturing industry in England; he produced brown decorated stonewares and (possibly) cobalt blue and manganese purple decorated wares Dwight was noted for development of English white salt glaze industry

WHITE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE PLATES 1740-1805 - white salt-glazed molded plates, 1740-1775 - transfer printing, 1756-1765 - replaced delftware in the 1750s fine, white body made with kaolin clay; mold made first matched sets of tableware cost of producing stoneware prevented it becoming widespread

WHIELDON WARES ca. 1740-1775, developed by Thomas Whieldon low-fired earthenware, using same clays as white salt-glazed stoneware; colored lead glazes - 'clouded' wares, tortoiseshell, mottled, ca. 1740-1770 - refined Agate ware, ca. 1740-1775 - green-glazed cream-bodied ware, ca. 1759-1775 table/ornamental wares NOTE: example above right - same plate mold as used for white salt-glazed stoneware plates

JACKFIELD WARE 1740-1780; pottery founded in Shropshire, England dense body, gray to black in color; rich black lead glaze; mold decorated table/tea ware, jugs NOTE: a very similar ware (but with a red body) was made during the same period by Thomas Whieldon and others in Staffordshire

ENGLISH PORCELAIN 1745-present soft 'chalky' white in color or dense and translucent (bone china); semi-glossy, clear glaze; undecorated or hand painted in monochrome (cobalt blue) under the glaze; polychrome palette and gilding over the glaze in wide variety of patterns; transfer printing on some wares fine table/tea wares, toiletry wares