Dish
ca. 1810 (made)
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Object Type
The majority of blue and white transfer-printed pottery, made in huge numbers after about 1800, consisted of cheap tablewares made for the general population. Many thousands of plates of this general type were made by many British potteries in the early 19th century.
Design & Designing
Having exhausted the possibilities of making direct copies of Chinese porcelains, engravers making copper-plates specifically for the pottery trade began to turn to invention. If pagoda-like temples from China were exotic, then so were palm-trees from the Middle East. Such muddled designs were never intended to be studied, as they now are by ardent collectors.
Time
When this plate was made, it was about 40 years since the first expensive English blue and white porcelain tablewares had been made at Worcester. With the advent of the taste for the more austere Neo-classicism at the end of the 18th century, makers of fashionable porcelains abandoned Chinese-type decoration and instead began to copy French styles. At the same time, partly to replace the defunct manufacture of delftware, transfer-printing in blue was applied to cheap earthenware for the mass market. By 1800, the style that in the 1770s the wealthy had considered the latest fashion was given a new - and much longer - lease of life lower down the social scale.
The majority of blue and white transfer-printed pottery, made in huge numbers after about 1800, consisted of cheap tablewares made for the general population. Many thousands of plates of this general type were made by many British potteries in the early 19th century.
Design & Designing
Having exhausted the possibilities of making direct copies of Chinese porcelains, engravers making copper-plates specifically for the pottery trade began to turn to invention. If pagoda-like temples from China were exotic, then so were palm-trees from the Middle East. Such muddled designs were never intended to be studied, as they now are by ardent collectors.
Time
When this plate was made, it was about 40 years since the first expensive English blue and white porcelain tablewares had been made at Worcester. With the advent of the taste for the more austere Neo-classicism at the end of the 18th century, makers of fashionable porcelains abandoned Chinese-type decoration and instead began to copy French styles. At the same time, partly to replace the defunct manufacture of delftware, transfer-printing in blue was applied to cheap earthenware for the mass market. By 1800, the style that in the 1770s the wealthy had considered the latest fashion was given a new - and much longer - lease of life lower down the social scale.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue |
Brief description | Dish with Two Temples pattern |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by A. Brent |
Object history | Probably made in Staffordshire |
Summary | Object Type The majority of blue and white transfer-printed pottery, made in huge numbers after about 1800, consisted of cheap tablewares made for the general population. Many thousands of plates of this general type were made by many British potteries in the early 19th century. Design & Designing Having exhausted the possibilities of making direct copies of Chinese porcelains, engravers making copper-plates specifically for the pottery trade began to turn to invention. If pagoda-like temples from China were exotic, then so were palm-trees from the Middle East. Such muddled designs were never intended to be studied, as they now are by ardent collectors. Time When this plate was made, it was about 40 years since the first expensive English blue and white porcelain tablewares had been made at Worcester. With the advent of the taste for the more austere Neo-classicism at the end of the 18th century, makers of fashionable porcelains abandoned Chinese-type decoration and instead began to copy French styles. At the same time, partly to replace the defunct manufacture of delftware, transfer-printing in blue was applied to cheap earthenware for the mass market. By 1800, the style that in the 1770s the wealthy had considered the latest fashion was given a new - and much longer - lease of life lower down the social scale. |
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Accession number | CIRC.239-1916 |
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Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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