Description:
English press-molded, deep cream-colored circular creamware plate with a deep well and wavy edges. The well is decorated in low relief in the center with a circular panel containing a pattern of squares enclosed within a cord molding and surrounded by eight small 'rococo' panels containing trellis diaper filled with dots and stars, alternating with panels of basketweave. The rim has eight similar but large panels alternating with basketweave and a diamond-shaped, pierced (seven holes) trellis diaper pttern. This pattern, a common Staffordshire type made in the 1760s and 1770s found in quantity on the Whieldon site in both salt-glazed and creamware, is better known in salt-glazed earthenware with the creamware shards often decorated with colored glazes. Donald Towner in his "Creamware" notes that most of the early creamware was being made by salt-glaze potters and that the color was a deep cream close to buff, which was derived from both the body and the glaze - usually a deep yellow, soft brown or bright lemon-yellow with a tinge of green. There are examples in deep cream in the Temple Newson collection. However, Leslie Grigsby, who examined the plate here at HD, believes that it may be a 20th century fake. In the late 19th and early 20th century, typical eighteenth-century Leeds creamwares were produced by James Senior and his son, George, and by John Thomas Morton and sold by the W. W. Slee Co. These reproductions often bear the original impressed mark "LEEDS POTTERY", and in general these wares are thicker in potting than the original, and the glaze often very thick and much crazed. The Seniors did make a similar plate pattern in creamware in the early 20th century, which is pictured in the 1913 W. W. Slee Co. catalogue, fig. 600 as 'Fruit Dish'.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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