Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware, tapered, conical-shaped coffeepot with an acorn knop on a slightly-domed lid decorated with floral sprays, which sits on the rim; and a loop handle with pinched terminal and shaped, upturned spout, both decorated with delicate red feather/vine decorations. There is a band of floral sprys around the rim, and the sides are decorated with a chinoiserie garden scene with a fence encircling the lower pot and arched floral sprays over a Chinese woman on each side, one of whom holds a floral spray. Designs incorporating a fenced garden were freely adapted from Chinese porcelain patterns and are commonly found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware. The painting of the Chinese-inspired decorations on this coffeepot is exceptionally fine, and is part of a distinctive type of decoration with thickly-applied enamels producing a 'jewelled' effect, which is found on a particular group of wares all painted in a famille-rose palette with chinoiseire subjects. John Austin suggested that the painting was done perhaps in Liverpool. There is a similarly decorated coffeepot (without the fence) in the Temple Newsam House, Leeds, England collection, which Peter Walton suggests a German design such as found in P. Shenck, "Nieare geinventeerde Sineesen", a source for much decoration on European stoneware. 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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