Plate
ca. 1825 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
By the 1820s there was a popular market for polychrome decoration in a pseudo-Chinese style. Mass-produced bone china was decorated with simple transfer-printed outlines. Unskilled artists then filled these in with a limited range of contrasting colours. This provided bright and wholesome tea wares at a modest cost.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Bone-china with bat-printed decoration |
| Brief description | Bone-china plate with enamelled outline-printed decoration, by Hilditch & Son of Longton, about 1825. |
| Physical description | Bone-china plate with enamelled outline-printed decoration. |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'H&S' within a wreath and a crown (printed in red) |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs B. E. Adams |
| Summary | By the 1820s there was a popular market for polychrome decoration in a pseudo-Chinese style. Mass-produced bone china was decorated with simple transfer-printed outlines. Unskilled artists then filled these in with a limited range of contrasting colours. This provided bright and wholesome tea wares at a modest cost. |
| Bibliographic reference | Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.23-1966 |
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| Record created | December 5, 2002 |
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