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Culture:English
Title:plate
Date Made:circa 1760
Type:Food Service
Materials:ramic: tin-glazed earthenware decorated in cobalt blue, antimony yellow, manganese purple, iron orange-red, white, and green
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Bristol; Redcliff Back Pottery (probably)
Measurements:overall: 1 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.; 22.225 cm
Accession Number:  HD 54.220
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English delft plate in Fazackerly colors of blue, green, yellow, purple, and orange-red, and white bianco-sopra-bianco pattern of scrolling leaves and stylized flowers, all over a pale blue glaze. Bianco-sopra-bianco is decorative form where a painted design in a brilliant white pigment stands out against a tinted ground. Late fifteenth-century Italian potters first developed this technique, called 'bianchetto', but its revival in the eighteenth century is probably connected to decorated Chinese export porcelains. Underglaze carved decoration (known as 'an hua') and overglaze white enameling on Chinese porcelains directly inspired their imitation on delftwares. The bianco sopra bianco technique first appeared in Europe on Italian maiolica of the late 15th or early 16th century but it was not long lived and disappeared. The bianco technique was first revived at the Swedish factory of Rörstrand sometime before 1745, and seems likely that the decorative technique was brought to England by Magnus Lundberg, a Swedish potter who had worked at the Rörstrand factory. Lundberg eventually settled in Bristol around 1750 to become a pot-painter and master at the Richard Frank's Redcliff Back pottery. The well is decorated with a bunch of flowers, with large central purple flower surrounded by three blue, three orange-red, and one yellow flower with stems and leaves, tied together with scrolling purple string ribbon. This 'Fazackerly' palette of colors, a combination of dark indigo blue, lemon yellow, sage green, orange, manganese purple, and strong dark red, became popular in the 1750s. Although this style of decoration is normally attributed to Liverpool, the glaze, bianco pattern, and muted, softer colors of the ribbon-tied flowers is associated with Bristol; this combination is also found on Bristol tiles of the period.

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