Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, double sauceboat with similar relief decoration on either side. Oval base has gadrooning around the rim, body of sauceboat has fan-shaped decorative motifs, two opposing handles extend from the top and attach at the sides. Thomas and John Wedgwood took over their father's potworks after his death in 1743 which they operated until 1780, making a large fortune as the most successful manufacturers of salt-glazed stoneware in the county. This slip-cast sauceboat has a scalloped rim with a molded edge and two ribbed strap handles, extruded from shaped templates and applied as loops with pinched lower terminals, at the mid-point of each side; gadrooned shoulders over relief shell-like forms under the two pouring lips which are separated from the forms on the sides by shaped panels of a bumpy or chicken-skin ground; and a press-molded, oval domed foot with gadrooning and a plain edge. This sauceboat came with a block mold (HD 85.064A) in a similar pattern; however, it was not the mold for this sauceboat. 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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