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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lyled to the erroneous impression that paintings onchina are done under, not on, the glaze. He wastreating of the Derby enamel work. A present daypottery engraver informs me it depends largely onthe amount of heat in the enamel kiln. If high, theprint and glaze may be fused, and vice versa. This isequivalent to Mr. Dranes view of it. It is interesting to note the influence at work,and the phases which, by means of transfer prints onthis Anglo-American pottery, it has taken. Thepottery with scenes derived from the American Wargave employment to a great number of our pottersfor the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Partlyco-terminous and succeeding it came the desire forscenery and beauty spots in America and in otherlands depicted on the ware. A Staftbrdshire potter(Clews) issued a series of picturesque views. Oneof them, a scene on the Hudson River, is illustratedherein. (See Fig. C 15). He had engravings afterWilkie depicted thereon, such as the Errand Boy, 86 Plate No. XXXII.
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Fig. C11. DISH, EARTHENWARE, BLUE PRINTWm. Adams & Sons. Development in the 19th Century. Rabbit on the Wall, and a number of others.Clews also produced some comic sketches on hisplates, such as Dr. Syntax in Search of a Wife,after Rowlandson, and scenes from the life of the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, the immortalDon Quixote. One of the Syntax plates is figured inthese pages (Fig. B 13). Napoleon, of course, as thebete noir of Europe, came in for much ridicule. ASwansea jug had upon it a most extraordinary seriesof the adventures of Boney, as they called him, theend of which was closely mixed up with his SatanicMajesty, who had poor Boney by the heel. But there were some high class engravings transferred as well, and scenes from English life.The English mansion series contains some excellentviews well engraved and transferred to the ware inclear distinct engraving. A number of the Stafford-shire potters took up that phase of the work, which isnow collected on both sides of

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