Underglaze
Printing in a single color on earthenware and stoneware 1820-1850
Additional Image: Also shown here is a small earthenware ewer printed in blue in the Old Peacock pattern. |
Shape Type: Toilet & Personal Hygiene Pattern Type: Animals Date: c. 1815-1825 Dimensions:
Maker: Spode Maker's Mark: Description: An earthenware foot bath printed n blue in the Old Peacock pattern. This scarce pattern dates from 1815 to 1825. Robert Copeland suggested that the design might have been derived from a Japanese porcelain plate made at the Arita kilns for the Dutch East India Company and that the birds might be ho-ho birds, or phoenixes. Leonard Whiter had called the pattern Old Peacock,... BACK TO CATALOG INDEX
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