Unmarked.Ī fine English Whieldon Creamware Plate, Circa 1760, with silver-shape moulded rim, decorated with tortoise-shell design in brown. Condition: each creamboat with a chip near the rim. Dimensions: 10 cm from spout to handle x 5 cm high. The "Cream-coloured earthenware" was at first dusted in its unfired state with dry lead ore in powder-form (galena) mixed with ground flint and given its one and only firing.The glaze produced in this way was extremely brilliant and of a somewhat golden tinge.Ī Pair of William Greatbatch Creamware Creamboats c.1770Ī Pair of William Greatbatch Creamware Creamboats c.1770, shell-moulded body, painted in blue underglaze with "pagoda and fence" pattern. The two wares were thus intimately related and were usually produced by the same potters. The ware was low-fired to form an earthenware and glazed with lead instead of being high-fired to form a stoneware and glazed with salt as with the white salt-glazed stoneware from which it sprang. It was probably first introduced soon after 1720 and in its earliest form was composed of the same ingredients as white salt-glaze - namely, white clay from Devonshire and calcined flint. Creamware, which became Europe's greatest contribution to ceramics, evolved from these traditional Staffordshire wares.
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