Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware sauceboat with a slip-cast oval body with a shaped rim, fluted sides, pinched spout, ribbed strap handle ending in a pinched terminal, and flat base. The sides are decorated overall with crisply molded, dence flowering branches in low relief on each of the flutes. There are also looped line patterns on each side of the handles. A similar sauceboat was sold at Sotheby's auction of the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection in 2006 where it was noted that an identical white salt-glazed stoneware saucboat, the molding on which matches shards excavated at the Deer Street area of Partsmouth, NH, was exhibited at the Museum of Our National Heritage exhibition, "Unearthing New England's Past: The Ceramic Evidence," January 29, 1984-January 13, 1985, no. 23, held in Lexington, Masachusetts. 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. See also HD 60.133 for the same sauceboat form with different 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); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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