Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware bottle with a flared rim, decorated with an applied sprig-molded band of scrolling flowers and leaves around the bulbous body. Bottles of this shape with mold-applied relief decoration are most common in salt-glazed stoneware. 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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