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The name of Felix Pratt (1780–1859), Staffordshire pottery-manufacturer, used attrib. to designate a type of cream-coloured earthenware painted in high-temperature colours and widely produced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. So Pratt-type adj., etc.
[1912F. Litchfield Pott. & Porc. (new ed.) vii. 195 The Pottery of Felix Pratt,..marked with the name Pratt and known as ‘Pratt's ware’, was in this district [sc. Fenton]. ]1920G. W. Rhead Earthenware Collector xi. 197 One of the most successful pieces of Pratt ware is the mug of ‘Midnight Conversation’ in the Hanley Museum. Ibid. A number of Pratt jugs have been known as Sunderland jugs. 1933W. B. Honey Eng. Pott. & Porc. vii. 100 The so-called ‘Pratt ware’ was made by other Staffordshire potters as well as by those of Sunderland and other places in the North. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 182/2 ‘Pratt’ type, wares made at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, decorated with a distinctive palette of high temperature colours. 1963House & Garden May 68/2 The pottery pieces..are mostly Pratt-ware made either just before or just after the beginning of the nineteenth century, and are part of a collection of Pratt. 1967Times 14 Mar. 21/7 (Advt.), English pottery and porcelain..including..a Prattware grotto group. 1974Country Life 21 Feb. (Suppl.) 56 Six Pratt Pot-lids and some Pratt Ware. a1977Harrison Mayer Ltd. Catal. 99/1 Pratt Type and Peasant enamel Wares... 20 Slides. |
