Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, pear-shaped cream pot or milk pot with a circular lid (too small for the pot and sitting on the rim) and eagle knop, which is attached to the handle by a metal chain.The cover and pot are decorated with stamped applied ornament in relief of with a variety of floral sprigs and scrolls. The jug has a pinched spout, applied strap handle with pinched terminal, and is supported on three lion mask and claw feet. 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. The glaze on the stoneware was the result of throwing salt into a high temperature oven (1000-1100 degrees), where the heat caused the salt to volatilise and the soda in the salt to combine with the alumina and silica in the clay to form a thin vitreous glass-coating over the surface. That outer layer has characteristic minute pitting. Since there are no factory markings, it is very difficult to link pot with potter.
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