Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, press-molded oval platter decorated in pink, green, brown, yellow, and purple. The well has a well-dressed gentleman his woman companion, a small dog, two sheep, and an urn on a plinth in a parkland with scattered trees, which may have been taken from an English or European print. The curvature has panels of floral lozenges alternating with pink ground trellis pattern; the lobed and barbed rim is molded with vines of pink and yellow flowers and green leaves in low relief. Although Staffordshire white stoneware had been perfected by about 1720, its possibilities for mass-production were not fully exploited until the 1740s. Then the techniques of press-moulding, slip-casting and enamelling were developed, and the drabness of the greyish stoneware surface was successfully relieved by the addition of all-over decoration. Colorfully painted stoneware using enameled decoration was being produced in Staffordshire by the mid 1750. Since these pieces required a second firing to fuse the enamels onto the glazed surface, these wares were more expensive than white stoneware.
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