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DOI Artikel:Birkenmajer, Ewa: English redware from the period of Industralization of Staffordshire in Polish collections
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10. Two cream-jugs, workshop of Thomas Astbury, 1765 — 1770, Tarnów, Muzeum
set. The remaining three pieces now the property of the Museum a t Tarnów, indicate certain
analogy with the foregoing objects : two cream-jugs, along with the one in the National Museum
and the tea-pot with the jug in the Museum at Wilanów. This similarity in the case of three
vessels with the pieces which are undoubtedly connected with inheritors of E.I. Lubomirska per-
mits us to suppose that they come from the collection of the Rzewuski family in Podhorce.
At the time when the pieces discussed were produced, redware had already lostits market. And,
it seems, rarely, even accidentally could it travel beyond England and America. Hence I presume
that the purchase of the vessels, particulalry those from the workshop of Thomas Astbury, was
effected at the same time. If this supposition is correct, then we have to recognize the simulta-
neous period of production. It seems that the vessels discussed have shapes and decorations of
two different periods. If, however, they had reached Poland as a single lot of purchase, it could
be accepted that the workshop produced simultaneously in the years 1765 — 1770 vessels similar
to the fashion of the times as well as those of older models. Also that it used simultaneously all
methods of decoration: relief placed by means of a mould on the surface of the vessel, elements
prepared in separate moulds and subsequently applied on to the vessel as also the mechanical
method of decorating the surface on a turning-lathe.
2. Redware covered with black lead glaze is a later type in the development of English cera-
mics. It drew upon Continental models: Bóttger and his imitators. Being, however, an echo of
those methods, it produces graceful shapes, and the original manner of ornamentation introduced
by Whieldon was rapidly accepted in many workshops. This kind of redware so-called black
glazed pottery, which Was used exclusively for vessels of every day use, was never marked by
manufacturers Hence their attribution is extremely difficult.
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set. The remaining three pieces now the property of the Museum a t Tarnów, indicate certain
analogy with the foregoing objects : two cream-jugs, along with the one in the National Museum
and the tea-pot with the jug in the Museum at Wilanów. This similarity in the case of three
vessels with the pieces which are undoubtedly connected with inheritors of E.I. Lubomirska per-
mits us to suppose that they come from the collection of the Rzewuski family in Podhorce.
At the time when the pieces discussed were produced, redware had already lostits market. And,
it seems, rarely, even accidentally could it travel beyond England and America. Hence I presume
that the purchase of the vessels, particulalry those from the workshop of Thomas Astbury, was
effected at the same time. If this supposition is correct, then we have to recognize the simulta-
neous period of production. It seems that the vessels discussed have shapes and decorations of
two different periods. If, however, they had reached Poland as a single lot of purchase, it could
be accepted that the workshop produced simultaneously in the years 1765 — 1770 vessels similar
to the fashion of the times as well as those of older models. Also that it used simultaneously all
methods of decoration: relief placed by means of a mould on the surface of the vessel, elements
prepared in separate moulds and subsequently applied on to the vessel as also the mechanical
method of decorating the surface on a turning-lathe.
2. Redware covered with black lead glaze is a later type in the development of English cera-
mics. It drew upon Continental models: Bóttger and his imitators. Being, however, an echo of
those methods, it produces graceful shapes, and the original manner of ornamentation introduced
by Whieldon was rapidly accepted in many workshops. This kind of redware so-called black
glazed pottery, which Was used exclusively for vessels of every day use, was never marked by
manufacturers Hence their attribution is extremely difficult.
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