Susan Walters ware type a request for blue painted wares August 25, 2022


On August 15th, Susan Walter posted a request for shell edged wares in a
variety of shapes.  This brought to mind previous discussions of
pearlwares.  Pearlware has become a pigment of our imagination.  The
Staffordshire potters almost never used the term and did not classify their
wares by ware type after decoration became more common.  In addition they
classified their wares by broad functional groupings.  Staffordshire
potters price fixing lists from 1783, 1796, 1808, 1814, 1824, 1833, 1846,
and 1852 classified their wares on these lists as tableware, teaware, dipt
wares, Egyptian Black.  For example, shell edge is always listed as
tableware on these lists as well as on the many surviving potter’s
invoices.  Teas (cups and saucers) are almost always listed a painted or
printed decoration.  Dipt wares are commonly listed as mugs and jugs
wares.  What is to be gained by ignoring their classification and calling
things “Pearlware” or white ware?

There is an extensive discussion of the potter’s classifications with color
illustrations in Miller, Smart and Dickinson in the article “Changing
Consumption Patterns, English Ceramics and the American Market from 1770 to
1840” in Everyday Life in the Early Republic edited by Catherine Hutchins,
1994, Winterthur Museum.

Further discussion of this can be found in How Creamware got the Blues: The
Origins of China Glaze and Pearlware. By George L. Miller and Robert
Hunter.  Ceramics in America 2001, Chipstone Foundation, edited by Robert
Hunter.

Rob is working on an upcoming volume focused on shell edged wares in an
upcoming volume of Ceramics in America.  It will have great color photos
with articles by several authors.


On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:17 PM Susan Wlater <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> We are looking for photographs of edge decorated wares (shell / feather
> edge) showing a variety of vessel shapes.
> We need permission to use the photograph/s in a published report, and we
> particularly need some hollowware items.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks in advance,
> S. Walter
>
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