Description:
One of a pair of white salt-glazed stoneware, press-molded, shaped sweetmeat or pickle dishes (the other dish, HD 57.030, deaccessioned in 2004) with Chinese figure standing by a pavilion in an ornamental graden, and a lobed rim with radiating panles with floral and foliate sprays in relief. There are similar examples in the collections of Colonial Williamsburg, Winterthur Museum, and the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent, England. 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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