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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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d transferringbusiness was so flourishing there must have been anumber of engravers employed. Why, in the 1802list for the Potteries, given by Chaffers, there wereno less than fourteen. Liverpool did much of theStaffordshire transfer work from 1756 to about 1780and, in a lesser degree, for years afterwards. Hencethe necessity for a considerable plurality of engravers.But, saving Carver, R. Abbey, T. Laurenson, PaulSandby, J. Johnson, Wm. Smith and P. P. Burdett,we have no recorded names of any others, through-out the half century, after the transfer processcommenced. There must have been many more. Ifso, they departed and left no sign of their presencesave the covering title of Sadler and Green. We may well say of these unknown but worthymen—quoting the language of Thomas Gray in hisimmortal elegy:— Full many a gem of purest ray serene,The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear;Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ii6 Plate No. XLVII.
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Fig. D 24. PLATE, WHITE WARE, BLUE PRINT.Enoch Wood & Sons. After the Masters. The enumeration and illustration of these pieceswill go far to prove that the transfer print is not somuch entitled to be despised after all. Only a fewhave been unearthed. If that, can be done in thegreen tree what will be done in the dry ? Let us not,however, claim over much in this way. The printingside of the ceramic art has simply helped to developEnglands forward place in the world of ceramics andmainly in a commercial sense. Still, we like to havejustice fairly distributed. It is the pride of Englishmento call for fair play all round. Hence it is modestlyasked that the transfer print may have a fair share ofapplause so far as real art is concerned, in the workof the engraver, as applied to the printing on ware.That is all. To the general public it may seem amatter of indifference, but to the men and women whoamuse their leisure by a harmless and interestingstudy of the subject, it means very much

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