Description:
Pair of English press-molded, white salt-glazed stoneware plates decorated with a large floral spray in the well and four trailing florals sprays around the gadrooned molded rim, all in reds, yellow, greens and blues. The press molded plates have a gadrooned, silver shape border. Rim pattern is Kuettner, White Salt-Glazed Stoneware plate patterns, E1. 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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