Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware, globular-shaped teapot decorated around the sides with a woman in reddish-pink gown standing next to a column with a river and two castle on one side, and a castle, ship, river, and wall on the other. The pot has an inset circular lid with crabstock knop over a painted castle and floral lozenge and green asterisk trellis band around the rim, which is repeated around the top of the pot; a crabstock handle and spout with green accents; and small foot rim. 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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