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DOI Artikel:Birkenmajer, Ewa: English redware from the period of Industralization of Staffordshire in Polish collections
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18816#0022
1. Tea-cup with saucer, worksliop of Thomas Astbury, Lane Delph, 1765 — 1770, Wilanów, Pałace
the author on the basis of objects indicated by names of owners of workshops distinguished
gronps connected with pąrticular manufactures. Certain workshops, however, often used a number
of different. marks. The author does not deny that some of the vessels were of Wedgwood's ma-
nufacture ;7 they are undoubtedly those on whose marks the letter „W" can be deciphered. He
does, however, distinguish some workshops with a decided individuality and distinction in their
production. Among these is the manufacture of Thomas Astbury, functioning at Lane Delph from
1743 and turning out good second class articles. Among the number of 89 objects examined R. M.
Price distinguishes 42 which permit four of the known marks to be connected with that work-
shops with absolute certainty.
The article by R. M. Price has served as a basis for connecting 7 objects in Polish collections
with the workshop of Thomas Astbury. They are: a cylindrical tea-cup with saucer, two pear-
shaped coffee-pots, three cream-jugs with a very cpiiet form and decorated handles in the
shape of entwined strings „pasted" with flowers, and one tea-pot (Fig. 1-11). Among the objects
named above one is unique : the tea-cup and saucer—a rarity in redware, and in all probability
not known among the products of the workshop of T. Astbury. What is interesting is that the
mark of meandering spiral8 on the group of vessels examined by R. M. Price is known „entirely
on stamped pieces" whereas it is also found on engine-turned cream-jugs9 which are in Poland.
There is sufficient comparative materiał to connect unmarked pieces, the saucer and the two
coffee-pots, with the workshop of Thomas Astbury. The plant ornamentation on the saucer has
7. The fact of production of redware by Wedgwood is corroborated in bislettera written in the sixties.
8. R.M. Price, o.c, Mark II iv.
9. Cf. Warren E. Cox, Tlic Book of Poltery and Porcclain, New York, 1959, plate 211. It seems that the same mark is found on
the bottom of the coffee-pot, whose surface bcars analogoua ornamentation (the piece is, howeyer, dated too early).
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the author on the basis of objects indicated by names of owners of workshops distinguished
gronps connected with pąrticular manufactures. Certain workshops, however, often used a number
of different. marks. The author does not deny that some of the vessels were of Wedgwood's ma-
nufacture ;7 they are undoubtedly those on whose marks the letter „W" can be deciphered. He
does, however, distinguish some workshops with a decided individuality and distinction in their
production. Among these is the manufacture of Thomas Astbury, functioning at Lane Delph from
1743 and turning out good second class articles. Among the number of 89 objects examined R. M.
Price distinguishes 42 which permit four of the known marks to be connected with that work-
shops with absolute certainty.
The article by R. M. Price has served as a basis for connecting 7 objects in Polish collections
with the workshop of Thomas Astbury. They are: a cylindrical tea-cup with saucer, two pear-
shaped coffee-pots, three cream-jugs with a very cpiiet form and decorated handles in the
shape of entwined strings „pasted" with flowers, and one tea-pot (Fig. 1-11). Among the objects
named above one is unique : the tea-cup and saucer—a rarity in redware, and in all probability
not known among the products of the workshop of T. Astbury. What is interesting is that the
mark of meandering spiral8 on the group of vessels examined by R. M. Price is known „entirely
on stamped pieces" whereas it is also found on engine-turned cream-jugs9 which are in Poland.
There is sufficient comparative materiał to connect unmarked pieces, the saucer and the two
coffee-pots, with the workshop of Thomas Astbury. The plant ornamentation on the saucer has
7. The fact of production of redware by Wedgwood is corroborated in bislettera written in the sixties.
8. R.M. Price, o.c, Mark II iv.
9. Cf. Warren E. Cox, Tlic Book of Poltery and Porcclain, New York, 1959, plate 211. It seems that the same mark is found on
the bottom of the coffee-pot, whose surface bcars analogoua ornamentation (the piece is, howeyer, dated too early).
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