Blue and White Transfer-Printed Pottery

von Robert Copeland

40 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the middle of the seventeenth century, Europeans, and Britons in particular, began their love affair with tea and with the blue and white 'chinaware' then being imported from China.Robert Copeland explains how European potters - looking to profit from this demand - tried to emulate this fine tableware, most successfully on artificial porcelain and tin-glazed earthenwares. He reveals the techniques of transfer-printing from engraved copper plates that allowed British potters to give the illusion of hand-painted patterns, which could in fact be mass produced.This informative introduction to the subject reveals how Josiah Spode spearheaded this process, and why his wares have never been surpassed.

• Reihe: Shire Publications
• ISBN: 9780747804499
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2003
• Größe: 210 x 148 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc