Description:
Color jar with unattached paper label for "BOOKED C..?/ En Fitzhugh/Green/ T1004," (paper label is in plastic sleeve in the data file), tall, cylindrical jar with applied rectangular handles with three ribs; jar used for the storage of dry pigments for the preparation of colored enamels, this example is composed of dark reddish brown clay with a darker brown clay swirled in; also has a band of white slip applied to the middle so that a label would appear more distinctly; jar has a circular lid of same material with squashed button-shaped finial, this example is printed on the bottom "Copeland & Garrett" on a circular belt or garter like mark. It was found in the color room at the Spode Factory, Stoke, Staffordshire, England, by Donald Carpentier. Jar has some surface dirt, there is a chip to the top edge of the lid, and to the inner flange of the lid's interior. According to Robert Copeland, "Manufacturing Processes of Tableware in the 18th and 19th Centuries", p. 157: "Colour is the mixture of inorganic oxides, carbonates, etc.. which provide the tint and fluxes which fasten to the surface of the ware. For printing and painting the powdered colour is mixed with organic oils to render them workable." Green color is usually made with chromium alone or a mixture of chromium and zinc.
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