Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, globular-shaped teapot with an acorn knop over a circular inset lid, loop, ribbed extruded handle, and leaf molded spout, decorated around the sides with floral sprays in reds, greens, blues, and yellow. The decoration is similar to two white salt-glazed stoneware plates in the collection (see HD 56.310/A). 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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