Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware teacup decorated with a chinoiserie design of pink, blue, yellow flowers and green leaves, and a wavy red band around the interior rim and a blue flower in well. 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 hemispherical-thrown body has an out-turned lip, flat foot, and 3 stilt marks on bottom.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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