Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware plate with a scalloped edge. The press-molded plate is decorated with scroll and basket work in high and low relief respectively, with eight panels of diamond-shape, pierced trellis work around the rim. This pattern is also known in porcelain and lead-glazed earthenware. The glaze on the stoneware was the result of throwing salt into a high temperature oven (1000-1100 degrees), where the heat caused the salt to volatilise and the soda in the salt to combine with the alumina and silica in the clay to form a thin vitreous glass-coating over the surface. That outer layer has characteristic minute pitting. Since there are no factory markings, it is very difficult to link pot with potter.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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