Description:
Multi-nozzled, circular-section flower containers are known from the Middle East as early as 2500 BCE, but the flattened types referred to in England as “quintals,” “quintal flower horns,” or “five fingered flower pots,” were inspired by late 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware) vases from the Netherlands. Well into the 1800s, quintals were made in English creamware, pearlware, lusterware, and other ceramics for both domestic and foreign markets. English pearlware five fingered vase decorated with floral sprigs with "Prattware" colors of green, yellow, and blue, after the potter, William Pratt, who developed the palette at his factory in Lane Delph, Staffordshire. These are the typical range of colors available for underglaze painted decoration, a palette limited to colors derived from metallic oxides that could withstand the heat of the glaze firing. The vase openings and base are decorated in shell-edged blue.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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