Description:

Creamware mug printed in black in Liverpool by Guy Green. His former partner John Sadler wrote to Wedgwood on 27 March 1763 about "the variety of tint the Landskips, etc. have. A Landskip, for instance, has the fore Ground, which is very strong; Buildings etc. a little lighter, Water and other distant Buildings lighter yet, and Hills, Sky, etc. lighter still. And it may happen notwithstanding the greatest Care, that the strongest Parts, which have the most Colours on, may be short of fire sometimes. But we can remedy that by firing one Pattern at a time, when we have a large Quantity to do: but at present we have mostly been obliged to fire strong and weak Patterns together..."  The careful gradations of tone on this printed mug suggest that it was fired in a batch of the same pattern rather than in a mixed batch.