Description:
English salt-glazed waste bowl with a wheel-thrown hemispherical body with an applied flat foot. The exterior has a small flower spray with a pink and blue flower, divided by leaves; two pink and yellow bugs or flowers; and a large spray of pink, blue, red and yellow blossoms. The interior of the slightly-flared rim has two flowers and six leaves, and the well has a pink flower. 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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