Identifier: transferprinting00turn (find matches)
Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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he question of underglaze precedence willcome up again for consideration. Meantime, itis safe to say thatâso far as actually proveddates are concerned--the above is a summary thatis not likely to be modified in the present state ofour information upon this very obscure division ofthe subject in hand. Nevertheless, it must beadmitted that the years and dates given above areonly approximate of the exact truth. They are simplythe years which have been identified. That is afoundation to build upon. Mere vague assertion is ofno use in such a case, but, where we have a true datethen inquiry can dare to go on further step by step;and even speculation of a limited character may beindulged in. If we take the Battersea case as anexample of this position, it is found that the watchback belonging to Mr. Binns was dated masonicallyin the year 1753. Good ! But it is a well-finishedproduction and indicates that the manufacture hadbeen going on for some time previously. York House, 6a Plate No. XX.
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Fig. B 1 0, PHOTO OF ENGRAVING OF ORIGINAL. Wm. Adams & Sons. Development in the 18th Century. Battersea, was opened by Alderman Janssen about1750 it is saidâonly three years previously! Wehave it from Cynthio of the Gentlemans Magazine,that the art of transfer printing v^as one by rivalnumbers sought. It is, therefore, likely enough thatJanssen, if he really found out the secret fromRavenet, may, on the strength of it, have started theBattersea factory ; and thus, the enamel printing mayactually have been dated there from 1750. This samesort of evolution seems to have characterized theLiverpool discovery. Mr. Mayer stated that thesuggestion came to Sadler seven years previous to1756, by seeing some children sticking bits of paper onbroken pottery ; then, in the famous affidavit forpatent, Sadler and Green declare that they have beenall those years experimenting and that now^ (only now^!)have brought the art to perfection. If so, the Batterseainventor may have taken a like timeâ

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