Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware waste bowl decorated with a chinoiserie garden scene in pink, yellow, purple, brown, green, and blue. The exterior, which has incised lines encircling the body, has a chinoiserie garden scene with a long spray of pink, yellow, purple and blue flowers stemming from a rust and pink fence on green grass. Designs incorporating a fenced garden were freely adapted from Chinese porcelain patterns and are commonly found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware. The interior has a purple and brown band around the inside rim, and a pink flower and four green leaves in the 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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