Description:
English blackware eighteen-piece teaset consisting of a teapot and cover, cream pot and cover, sugar bowl and cover, tea canister and cover, waste bowl, plate, six teacups, and six saucers. According to Robin Reilly, this type of ceramic, often called Jackfield-type or blackware, was used at a factory in Jackfield, Shropshire, around 1750, and by a number ot Staffordshire potters such as Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgwood for the middle-class market. Blackwares are made of a red clay coated with a lustrous black glaze (dark brown, manganese and iron-based lead glaze) that can look similar in appearance to Asian lacquerware, and are often decorated with "cold" or unfired gilding. All the pieces in this set are relief-decorated with naturalistic, sprig-moulded roses and scrolling branches with vine leaves and grapes. There are gilt, press-molded bird finials on the covers of the teapot, cream pot, and sugar bowl, but the heads are missing on the finials on the cream pot and sugar bowl. The teapot and cream pot stand on three mask and paw feet; the teapot has a crabstock handle and spout.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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