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Lambeth Ware
In 1676 a Dutchman named Van Hamme took out a patent for making pottery, “after the way practiced in Holland,” and established at Lambeth the first factory at which tin glazed ware was produced in this country.
The best-known device of the Lambeth works, according to Mr Binns, is “the puzzle jug of which the neck is so perforated that it seems impossible to reach the liquid.” These jugs often bear an inscription in verse.
Lambeth was also noted for its stone wine jugs, or bottles, on which the name of the wine – as “Claret,” “Sack,” “Whit,” - is inscribed, and also the dates from 1642 to 1659.
Plates with portraits of Charles I and his Queen, and William and Mary, are also attributed to this factory. The old Lambeth works flourished till the end of the eighteenth century, when, being unable to compete with the Staffordshire potteries, they were closed.
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