When
Adam delved and Eve span who was then a gentleman?
John Ball, in speech to rebels,1381
…Making
Vessels for Apothecaries and others very artificially.
John Stowe, A Survey of London, 1633 ed.
My
squirrel with his tail curved up like half a silver lyre.
Winifred Welles, Silver for Midas, 1893–1939
Showing
the possibility and fitness of uniting the best class of design with the cheapest
material and in objects of constant popular use.
One of several reasons cited in 1868 for the Victoria and Albert Museum purchasing
German stoneware
