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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s to the immortalFrederick of Prussia. William Chaffers, in his monu-mental work, Marks and Monograms, has madethis singular error in copying the inscription, whichhas led many persons into a similar mistake. Atp. 757 (4th ed.), the following words occur: Thatthe art (transfer printing) was not new (i.e., in 1758)is proved by a specimen of transfer printing onenamelled copper in the possession of Mr. JosephMayer of Liverpool, being also a portrait of Frederickthe Great, done from the original painting at Berhn in1756. The logical inference from this sentence is thatthe transfer print on the enamel was done in 1756.Even such an authority as the BuHington Magazine (December, 1904) assumes that to be the meaning.But the real wording on the enamel is as follows:—Frederick III. King of Prussia.Done from an original, painted at Berlin in 1756.J. Sadler, Liverpl. Enaml.In a matter of dates, such as discussing theorigin of transfer prints at Liverpool, this is rather an io8 Plate No. XLIII.
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Fig. D 16. CUP and SAUCER. CREAM WARE, BLACK PRINTWedgwood. I After the Masters. important point to remember. It was not the print,but the painting that was done in 1756. The authoritiesat Liverpool itself put the print down to the year 1757.As a matter of fact it might have been printed at anytime after the sketch could be procured from Berlin—always remembering that it is not proved that anyprinting by transfer process at Liverpool was donebefore the 27th July, 1756. At the Liverpool Museumthere are four specimens of these enamels. The onenamed above ; one of George 11 ; another of WilliamPitt; and, a fourth, the Arms of the Bucks Society.In the carefully prepared paper (1882) of Mr. Chas. T.Gatty on the Liverpool potteries we get a glimpse ofthe Bucks Society. It bears on the question of datesregarding these enamels. He quotes the LiverpoolAdvertiser of 21st July, 1769, announcing theanniversary meeting of the Bucks Society to beheld on the 25th July (inst.). On another pagehe me

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