Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware, pear-shaped jug with an everted rim, beak-shaped spout, ribbed loop handle with a pinched terminal, and slightly spreading foot, which is decorated in blue, green, yellow, pinks, purple, red, and black (has been repainted). This jug form was made for many years and produced in delftware, salt-glazed stoneware, creamware, etc. The sides are decorated with a three large floral sprays in red, pink, and yellow; the spout has a trellis diaper pattern on a pink ground; and the rim is bordered by green trellis diaper pattern with stars and pink cartouches. 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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