Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, globular-shaped teapot with a circular inset lid with a crabstock loop knop, handle and shaped spout; and decorated around the sides with a landscape scene of a lake, mountain, church on one side, and a broken column on an urn, a lady, and the same mountain on the other. Some restoration to tip of spout. 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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