Description:
One of two Staffordshire plates decorated with a transfer print in blue and white and printed on the back, "R. Hall's/ Select Views/ Warleigh House/ Somersetshire." Warleigh House is a Tudor-style villa with castellated towers near Bathford, which was built about 1814; the landscape scene has two swans in a pond in the foreground and hills in the background, all surrounded with a large border of fruit and flowers with a lace edge which is common to English scenes issued as "Select Views." English potters were making tablewares in order to capture the American market; Staffordshire potters such as Hall, Riley, Davenport, Clews, and Wedgwood, were exporting these "Anglo-American" wares, often using historical subjects, including people, views, and events. Most were made from 1800-1850, with the largest production after the War of 1812. Originally in partnership with John Hall from about 1802 to 1822, Ralph Hall (d.1838) continued the Swan Bank Pottery mainly producing blue-printed wares for export to America. The pottery also used "Ralph Hall & Son" in about 1836 and became "Ralph Hall & Co" in 1841. Warleigh is a Georgian-Tudor house, on the bank of the River Avon and 6 miles from Plymouth. It was built by John Webb in about 1814 for Henry Skrine, whose family had lived on this land since 1400 AD.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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