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Culture:English
Title:cream pitchers
Date Made:1830-1850
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: red earthenware, copper luster (lusterware), blue slip, overglaze polychrome enamels
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire (probably)
Measurements:overall: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 in.; 8.89 cm
Accession Number:  HD 71.035/A
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Edgar Bibas
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Two English lusterware cream pitchers with deeply curved spouts, scroll handles, and flat base. The pitcher is covered with copper lustre and decorated with a blue slip band around the body and a floral spray in red-orange, green, pink, and yellow. Its copper lustre decoration is created by applying gold salts to the red earthenware body, where in the heat of the kiln the metal is deposited as a thin layer on the surface.

Subjects:
Pottery; Copper; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome

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