Description:
English pearlware vase, press-molded in two parts and decorated in "Prattware" colors in yellow, blue, orange, brown, and green, after the potter, William Pratt, who developed the palette at his factory in Lane Delph, Staffordshire. These are the typical range of colors available for underglaze painted decoration, a palette limited to colors derived from metallic oxides that could withstand the heat of the glaze firing. The urn-shaped vase, with its fluted opening, and decoration in green and yellow with a blue base, sits on a square plinth with a molded grotesque mask, from the mouth of which gushes water. Next to the large vase, a gardener, colored with brown, green, blue, orange, and yellow, holds a spade downward while standing on a green ground. The vase has a yellow, rectangular base. This figural vase was usually paired with a corresponding female gardner and placed on a mantelpiece.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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