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Lon Bulgarin - your gilding date of 1870 is correct (more or less).
For a quick reference check: Lewis, Griselda 1999 A Collector's History of English Pottery Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk UK
for more info on white granite check:
Godden, Geoffrey 1999 Ironstone Stone and Granite Wares Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, UK
Both are relatively new and exhaustive sources.
Carl Steen
1/22/2002 7:05:22 AM, Lon Bulgrin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:05:22 +1000
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> From: Lon Bulgrin <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:Re: White Granite
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> Ron May wrote:
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> Robert,
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> World economics and mass production on unheard of scale flooded the
> market with nice quality but soft paste white ceramics, as you have noted
> for the 1890-1950 era. Out here, the harder "improved paste" with molded
> designs nearly totally replaced the mid 19th century soft paste from 1870
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> to 1890. But something happened and soft paste rose in popularity. The
> gilt accents, rise in decalcomania, and improved machine painting also
> marks those soft paste pieces as later. During the American Great
> Depression of the 1930s, soft paste white ceramics dominated the markets.
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> The molded white ware with the harder improved paste comprised about 80%
> of the ceramics out here in California from about 1860 to 1880. I have
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> wondered if this coincided with strict religious beliefs condemning
> ostentatious displays, but have not really tested those waters.
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> Then a revival of transfer-printing on all forms of paste (including
> porcelain and Bone China) appeared in the 1880s (mostly loose floral
> designs). Transfer prints have always appealed to Americans as nostalgia
> markers and I recall my mother buying a set at a grocery store in the
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> early 1960s. You still see special Christmas sets sold with transfer
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> Ron
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> I think that tastes in the method of ceramic decoration just were different
> from the 1880s into the early 20th century. I agree that you have a limited
> amount of transfer printing until the blue green and pale brown art nouveau
> transfer prints and flow blue of the turn of the century but on the other
> hand you see a much more elaborate molding at the same time (low relief
> versus the bolder molded ironstones of the mid-19th century) and of course
> the tremendous increase in gilding. But I would bet that this was tied more
> into ideas of refinement than into religious beliefs. This was one of the
> periods in American history where class differences were most clear and
> raw. Feel free though to disagree, this may be more of an east coast
> perspective and of course debate is the meat of our discipline By the way
> does anyone have a reference for the "liquid gold" gilding? I lost mine in
> moving but I recall that the process started approximately 1870.
> Lon
Carl Steen
Archaeologist
The Diachronic Research Foundation
PO Box 50394
Columbia, SC 29250
Web Site: http://diachronicresearch.com
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