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DOI Artikel:Birkenmajer, Ewa: English redware from the period of Industralization of Staffordshire in Polish collections
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17. Cream-jug, Josiah Wedgwood (?), 1765-1770, Wilanów, Palące
from forms used in metal. Some vessels are decorated with relief. Such decoration initiated by
Whieldon is, in the opinion of Sir Edward Benthall, typical of vessels produced in Staffordshire.
As far as the method of decoration over the glaze of such pieces is concerned, it was exclusively
gold leaf and cold colours which were used,20 if anything, on black glazed pottery.
The catalogue of the exhibition includes 7 pieces from the Muzeum Śląskie in Wrocław. Two of
them (Fig. 20, 21) a tea-pot (height 12 cm, invent. No. 1675) and a coffee-pot (height 24 cm,
invent. No. 1674) are decorated with relief. The free, asymmetrical decoration of the tea-pot with
a large rosette, a vine and a hand-modelled vine stem as also the shape of the handle and the
spout are related to the earlier type of Whieldon, about the middle of the century. In the decora-
tion of the coffee-pot that freedom is wanting. The relief is composed of elements made with the
help of barely a few moulds, repeated many times and very schematically. The shape of the spout
is also of a later period. But in this piece too not only the shape imitating that of silver-ware but
also details are related to Whieldon; the vertically pressed end of the handle is come across
in his production and in that of his imitators in Staffordshire. On both vessels traces of gold deco-
ration are clearly visible.21
20. Gold leaf in many diffcrent workshop, gold leaf and colours in Jackficld. This decoration, placed wilhout firing, rnbs away
easily. But its traces are visible cvcn in extremcly woni out pieces.
21. On the tea-cup gold leaf was superimposed on the relief. On the coffee-pot the same method was followed, but apart from
that on the upper, smootb part of the vesscl a shade of flowery gildiiig is yisible.
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from forms used in metal. Some vessels are decorated with relief. Such decoration initiated by
Whieldon is, in the opinion of Sir Edward Benthall, typical of vessels produced in Staffordshire.
As far as the method of decoration over the glaze of such pieces is concerned, it was exclusively
gold leaf and cold colours which were used,20 if anything, on black glazed pottery.
The catalogue of the exhibition includes 7 pieces from the Muzeum Śląskie in Wrocław. Two of
them (Fig. 20, 21) a tea-pot (height 12 cm, invent. No. 1675) and a coffee-pot (height 24 cm,
invent. No. 1674) are decorated with relief. The free, asymmetrical decoration of the tea-pot with
a large rosette, a vine and a hand-modelled vine stem as also the shape of the handle and the
spout are related to the earlier type of Whieldon, about the middle of the century. In the decora-
tion of the coffee-pot that freedom is wanting. The relief is composed of elements made with the
help of barely a few moulds, repeated many times and very schematically. The shape of the spout
is also of a later period. But in this piece too not only the shape imitating that of silver-ware but
also details are related to Whieldon; the vertically pressed end of the handle is come across
in his production and in that of his imitators in Staffordshire. On both vessels traces of gold deco-
ration are clearly visible.21
20. Gold leaf in many diffcrent workshop, gold leaf and colours in Jackficld. This decoration, placed wilhout firing, rnbs away
easily. But its traces are visible cvcn in extremcly woni out pieces.
21. On the tea-cup gold leaf was superimposed on the relief. On the coffee-pot the same method was followed, but apart from
that on the upper, smootb part of the vesscl a shade of flowery gildiiig is yisible.
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