Broseley
the name of a town in Shropshire, used in Broseley porcelain, a soft-paste porcelain made by Thomas Turner (1749–1809) of Caughley, near Broseley, esp. the blue transfer-printed china of Oriental design, in which the Broseley dragon was extensively used.
| 1836 P. Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 464/2 The blue colours are supplied by the oxide of cobalt... Blue... Weak, (Broseley.)—Blue calc 20, flux 80. (Flint 70, nitre 9. borax 21;) or, calc 15, petuntse 85. 1878 L. Jewitt Ceramic Art I. 43 The white..is made of what is commonly called Brosely clay. Ibid. 268 The ‘Broseley Blue Dragon’ pattern. |