Underglaze
Printing on porcelain 1750-1800
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Shape Type: Breakfast & Tea Wares
Pattern Type: Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes
Date: c. 1777-1785 Dimensions: - Height: 5.00 in (12.7 cm)
Maker: Baddeley-Littler
Description:
A large tea canister of distinctive shape, printed in a rather blurred underglaze blue with a series of Chinese landscapes. This very rare tea canister belongs to a group of porcelain known by the name "Baddeley-Littler". These wares are believed to have been produced in Staffordshire by William Littler after his return there, from West Pans in Scotland, in 1777. The porcelain body is...
Description:
A large tea canister of distinctive shape, printed in a rather blurred underglaze blue with a series of Chinese landscapes. This very rare tea canister belongs to a group of porcelain known by the name "Baddeley-Littler". These wares are believed to have been produced in Staffordshire by William Littler after his return there, from West Pans in Scotland, in 1777. The porcelain body is a frit-type soft paste, very similar to the bodies made previously by Littler at Longton Hall and West Pans. The Baddeley-Littler name was assigned to this group by Geoffrey Godden (see Staffordshire Porcelain (1983) chapter 3) when he attributed the group to Littler working in Staffordshire c1777-1785. Blue printed wares of the group are extremely rare, only a few pieces being known. It seems that great production problems occurred due to the running of the cobalt in the soft lead glaze, so that blurred prints resulted.
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