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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of the underglaze colour printing, whichought to be mentioned. Dr. Simeon Shaw mentionsthat, about the time he was writing, Mr. Wm. Brooke,engraver, Tunstall, suggested certain improvementsin the way of decoration of plates—each to have adifferent landscape, group of flowers, and so forth.The design was taken up by various manufacturers,and some of the finest oriental scenery was transferredto pottery. Later on another improvement waseffected, and underglaze copies of the paintings of themasters were printed on dessert plates, etc. Manycovers of pomatum pots were so decorated, and,although this kind of decoration is still being done, theolder pieces are now collected. This process isvery different and more expensive than the ordinarylithographic style of the transfer of prepared sheets onto a glazed surface—often done by children. In the underglaze process the print is firsttransferred in the usual way, washed off, and allowedto dry for about a day. The second and other colours 88
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Fig. C 13. JUG, EARTHENWARE, BLUE PRINT.Wm. Adams & Sons. Fig. C 14. SUPPER DISH, EARTHENWARE, BLUE PRINTAdams & Sons. Development in the 19th Century. are dealt with, each in a similar style, until all arecompleted. Some very beautiful effects are obtainedin this manner. See Fig. B 20, for such transfersafter Teniers and Landseer, This plan began somehalf century ago or thereabouts. Mr. G. Hammersleyv^rites: In my early days a Mr. Austen, engraver,w^as exceedingly clever at this kind of work. And Ihad a few done in four colours at Brownhills by anengraver named Brown —letter, dated 26th April, 1905.The Messrs. Pratt, of Fenton, are still turning outthese exquisite underglaze reproductions, accordingto information received from a reliable source. In The Story of the Potter, by C. F. Binns,there is a capital chapter on transfer printing,containing a terse and clear description of theprocesses. In it the writer mentions that a greatdevelopment has taken place of late, in the a

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