Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware mug with a thrown cylindrical body, slightly flared foot, and applied handle with pinched terminal. The mug is decorated with a chinoiserie garden scene of three figures in a setting of rocks, a large tree, and prunis and flowering plum blossoms in pinks, greens, blues, reds, yellows, and blacks. One figure, in green, sits on a rock holding a fan; the second, in aqua and yellow, stands and points; while the third, holding a fan, sits before a table with a teaset. 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.
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