Description:
English pearlware teaset with a teapot and cover, sugar bowl and cover, three teacups, five saucers, and one small plate, decorated with a brown transfer print landscape scene enhanced with overglaze blue, yellow, and orange enamels. Both lids have blue knops and floral borders; the upper edge of the bodies have a floral band over a scene with two shepherds, sheep, cottage, flowers, and a castle with hills in the backgound. The handle and spout of the teapot are decorated with flowers. According to the Transferware Collectors Club Database, this transfer printed pottery is called by them the "Seated Shepherds" pattern. "Saucer, size unknown. The pattern is found on a blue printed saucer in LockettGodden1989, p. 154 (#122), where it says "seemingly a hitherto unrecorded and unnamed pattern." The name here is a TCC assigned name. Two shepherds appear to be chatting as their sheep graze in the distance. One shepherd is holding a shepherd's crook. This pattern is printed in a style sometimes referred to by Americans as underglaze polychrome or Salopian. For a discussion on Salopian and an illustration of this pattern, see NCS Newsletter #83, September 1991, pp. 16-21, an article by Ray Parkin titled "The 'Salopian' Wares."
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome Link to share this object record:
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