Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware coffee cup, chocolate cup, or capuchine with a wheel-thrown cylindrical body and coil handle with a pinched terminal. The exterior is decorated with a large floral spray in red, yellow, blue, pink and green, four leaves, and a blue, pink and yellow butterfly. 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. The body, with its slightly turned out rim, bulges out above the flat, out-turned reeded foot.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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