Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware teacup and saucer, which are not a match. The exterior of the teacup has a chinoiserie running fence and floral spray in reds, greens, blues, and yellows, and the interior has painted rim border of lozenge and trellis diaper with stars, and a flower in the well. Designs incorporating a fenced garden were freely adapted from Chinese porcelain patterns and are commonly found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware. The saucer, which is not a match for the cup, is decorated with scattered floral sprays in blue, yellows, greens, and reds. The teacup has a wheel-thrown, hemispherical body with rounded sides and flat foot set off by a deep turned line. 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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