Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware punch bowl decorated in green, purple, yellow, and red. The exterior sides are decorated with a chinoiserie scene of two men in pink and yellow, one with a hat, standing on either side of a tree in front of a running fence, and two floral sprays. There is a wide purple band around interior rim and a thin purple band around the lower curvature, and the well has a chinoiserie landscape scene with a figure in purple, green and pink standing next to a small hill which shelters a hut. Designs incorporating a fenced garden were freely adapted from Chinese porcelain patterns and are commonly found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware. 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; Copper; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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