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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en, somewhere, byprinting on pots from book plates. If so, it is apity the man had not the means and perseverance topursue and develop his invention. It was even abetter beginning than the papering of pottery bychildren, which gave Sadler, of Liverpool, the initialidea of the transfer print. There was Thos. Fletcher,black printer and enameller, of Shelton. He is in themap of 1802. A jug of his printing is illustratedherein. Fig. A 30. But we know little else about him.There was John Aynsley, of Lane End, who also isrecorded in the map of 1802, and a plate of his isillustrated in this volume, see Fig. A 29. But littleelse is recorded of him. There was Thomas Radford,who printed tea pots in black for Wm. Greatbach, ofFenton, but we have no fixed dates regarding him. There is a Hst of fourteen engravers, who residedin North Staffordshire at the close of the eighteenthand beginning of the nineteenth century. It would beinteresting to read about their individual careers, 8o Plate No. XXIX.
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Fig. C 4. DISH, WHITE WARE, BLUE PRINT.F. Meir. Development in the 18th Century. abilities and work, but the veil is not to be lifted.They were not manufacturers, but only cogs in thewheels of the commercial machinery of the Potteries.Their artistic work is obscured, and their talents areall hidden away behind the screen of business lifewhich has, unhappily, too much characterised thesystem of the master potters of Staffordshire.Doubtless, many of these humble men and artistengravers were mediocre in their abilities. But veryprobably some of them were not. In the case ofRavenet at Battersea, Hancock at Worcester, and thepainters at Chelsea, Derby and other factories, theirnames and productions have been handed down to us,and it is a great pleasure to the keen collector andconnoisseur to name their names and identify theirwork. 8i B TRANSFER PRINTING on Enamels J Porcelain and Pottery. DEVELOPMENT IN THE 19th CENTURY. THE factories and persons already discussed werethose early in the f

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