Staffordshire Pottery creamware figure which features a ram, recumbent on an oval base. Staffordshire pottery pearlware bocage figure with a musical theme which features a boy playing a pipe. Source: "Pages 21 and 44, Creamware by Donald Towner"įor any collector just starting out, I would highly recommend this book as a great investment. Staffordshire pottery Prattware model which features a long case clock with cherubs above the clock face. Case in point is this little figure of a boy selling rabbits and eggs. Remember, these figures were made in the days before photography, and, for that reason, they capture a host of everyday activities that are often unrecorded. Molded in relief with infant bacchante drinking from a jug centered by trailing pearls husk and flower ornament from which hangs a quiver of arrows. Early Staffordshire figures fascinate me because they give glimpses of the past that we would not otherwise see. The difficulty of attribution is further increased by the similarity of both body and glaze of the creamware made by a number of potteries as well as by the interchange and copying of ideas. Creamware Wall Pocket, Staffordshire, Cornucopia, MoldedEnglandCirca 1770. Other factories were for the most part content to leave their wares unmarked, largely due, no doubt, to the practice of supplying each other with wares to supplement exhausted stocks. In 1772, however, Wedgwood wrote to Thomas Bentley proposing that all his ware should be marked, but even after that date a considerable quantity of his ware seems to have missed being stamped. The attribution of pieces of creamware to a particular factory has always been a difficulty, as virtually no creamware was marked prior to Josiah Wedwood's manufacture of it in Burslem. Picture Title Seller Price Shipping Time left Large Rare Antique Doulton Lambeth Stoneware Toby Phillpot Character Jug : chingfordcurios (4. (Qty: 3) £70-100 8 A Prattware plate, pink ground, centre depicting young woman with basket, 22cm two puce ground Prattware plates, 22cm a turquoise Prattware plate, 21.5cm and a pair of Staffordshire Willow pattern plates, orange ground, lobed rim, 25cm.
This not only produced a much paler creamware but also gave it a lightness and brilliance which was wholly new.By 1770 other Staffordshire potters were producing the light-coloured creamware to which Wedgwood had given the name, "Queen's ware".A letter from Wedgwood.shows that the creamware potteries, at this time at any rate, made either the deeep or pale creamware, but were unable for practical reasons to make both simultaneously.īy 1778 he transformed this ware into virtually a “new substance of great beauty, which combined lightness with strength and was capable of the greatest delicacy of workmanship. 16cm and two Staffordshire green glazed plates, 21cm and 22.5cm. "Between 17, Wedgwood made a great many changes not only in the body and glaze of the creamware but also in the methods of its manufacture.The most important change, however.was the incorporation of Cornish china-clay and china-stone from Cornwall into both body and glaze.
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