Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware, pear-shaped jug with an everted rim, beak-shaped spout, ribbed loop handle with a pinched terminal, and slightly spreading foot, which is decorated with butterflies and a large floral spray in pink, purple, yellow, green, orange, and black. This jug form was made for many years and produced in delftware, salt-glazed stoneware, creamware, etc. 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. Colorfully painted stoneware using enameled decoration was being produced in Staffordshire by the mid 1750. Since these pieces required a second firing to fuse the enamels onto the glazed surface, these wares were more expensive than white stoneware.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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