Description:
Multi-nozzled, circular-section flower containers are known from the Middle East as early as 2500 BCE, but the flattened types referred to in England as “quintals,” “quintal flower horns,” or “five fingered flower pots,” were inspired by late 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware) vases from the Netherlands. Well into the 1800s, quintals were made in English creamware, pearlware, lusterware, and other ceramics for both domestic and foreign markets. English pearlware quintal or five-fingered vase, press-molded in two parts and decorated in high temperature underglaze enamel oxide "Prattware" colors in yellow, blue, orange, brown, and green, after the potter, William Pratt, who developed the palette at his factory in Lane Delph, Staffordshire. These are the typical range of colors available for underglaze painted decoration, a palette limited to colors derived from metallic oxides that could withstand the heat of the glaze firing. The fingers have shell-edge openings edged in blue; over linear floral sprays in blue, orange, green, and brown on the first, third, and fifth fingers; and orange foliate sprays on the second and fourth fingers. The molded shell on the bottom of the fingers and the two-stepped scalloped base are outlined in brown.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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