Description:
English blackware cream pot, part of an eighteen-piece teaset consisting of a teapot and cover, cream pot and cover, sugar bowl and cover, tea canister and cover, waste bowl, plate, six teacups, and six saucers. According to Robin Reilly, this type of ceramic, often called Jackfield-type or blackware, was used at a factory in Jackfield, Shropshire, around 1750, and by a number ot Staffordshire potters such as Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgwood for the middle-class market. Blackwares are made of a red clay coated with a lustrous black glaze (dark brown, manganese and iron-based lead glaze) that can look similar in appearance to Asian lacquerware, and are often decorated with "cold" or unfired gilding. All the pieces in this set are relief-decorated with naturalistic, sprig-moulded roses and scrolling branches with vine leaves and grapes. The cream pot has a cover with a gilt, press-molded bird finial (head missing); loop handle with a pinched terminal and V-shaped spout; and three mask and paw feet.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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