Description:
English soft-paste porcelain round waste bowl decorated with a blue transfer print in the "Fence" pattern, a design adapted from Chinese porcelain of the early to mid 18th century. Excavations at Worcester indicate that Worcester used the fence pattern as early as 1765 until 1785, and perhaps as late as 1788. Exacavations also show that underglaze blue designs became predominent around 1775, and that the Fence pattern was the most common of those. Separate copper plates were required for copying the same pattern on different forms, and because the pattern was so popular, numerous copper plates were exceucuted. In addition, many of the plates were reworked, all which accounts for the variations of the design on both the same and diverse forms. Several competitors copied the Fence design, including Caughley from 1775 to around 1790, Lowestoft from about 1770-1799, Darby from about 1765 to about 1772, and Coalport from 1799-1814; it was also copied on earthenwares. The exterior sides are decorated with two flying birds over a chinoiserie landscape with trees, rocks, foliage, and a small temple-like building. The interior has a hand painted band around the rim and small transfer-printed floral spray in the well.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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