Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware, globular-shaped bottle decorated in blue, pinks, reds, yellow, and greens with stylized floral pattern around the rim; over chinoiserie garden setting around the sides with two women, one sitting and reaching out to the second woman standing next to her with a bowl in her hands. Salt-glazed stoneware and creamware bottles, like counterparts in delftware and porcelain, appear typically to have been paired with matching basins. In some cases such sets were provided with specific use supports. The 1770 death inventory of Lord Botetourt, the last Royal Governor of Virginia includes "wash bason[s]" with "Mahogany Stand[s] compleat" (variously worded) among his personal effects in three bedrooms in Williamsburg's Governor's Palace. "A bason stand and a bason and bottle" are included under lot 10 in Christie's 1766 London auction catalogue for the fourth day (December 9) of an estate sale. Such stands typically stand on the floor as independent furniture, and are roughly of table height or a little taller. 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 1750s. 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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