Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware waste bowl decorated with a chinoiserie garden scene in pink, red, yellow, and blue. Designs incorporating a fenced garden were freely adapted from Chinese porcelain patterns and are commonly found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware. The exterior is decorated with a fence made of a thin red line in puzzle-piece shapes, with a tree growing from its center and flowers, and a flying bird between the two floral sprays. The bowl has a wavy green border around the interior the rim edge, and three floral sprigs in pink, yellow, and blue in the well. The underside of the bowl (within the foot rim) shows evidence of a circular shaped kiln furniture scar. 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. The glaze on the stoneware was the result of throwing salt into a high temperature oven (1000-1100 degrees), where the heat caused the salt to volatilize and the soda in the salt to combine with the alumina and silica in the clay to form a thin vitreous glass-coating over the surface. That outer layer has characteristic minute pitting. Since there are no factory markings, it is very difficult to link pot with potter.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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