Ceramics

[Vuhginyuh]

I'm going to park my ceramics files here.




Lord of Musrule(?)
12 inch monochrome softpate water pitcher. Possibly Scottish. Bankfoot, Prestonpans (Edinburgh). Robert or George Gordon, ca 1820.

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[KathyBradford]

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This is fascinating. The shape is graceful and elegant, and the figures are great vignettes of activity. The man with birds, the bagpiper, the dancers, and all the others tell a story. I can only imagine what a great conversation piece this would have been at the time, and it still is. How are the figures applied?

[Vuhginyuh]

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This is a transfer print. The glaze is screen printed on dry paper and when moisten and applied to the leather hard clay or a wet under-glaze it adheres to the surface. It made mass production possible. This is particularly fine work. Most transfer work is sloppy and irregular, things that normally appeal to me. I love the flaws in the factory pieces. Ill see if I can dig up some flawed examples.

I purchased this as a Punch & Judy inspired ceramic and later thought it to be Dr Syntax . Now I can only guess who the "Broadbottom" Georgian cartoon characters actually are. I'm sure there is a simple answer but I have lost the will to find it. One reason I put it here was to see if anyone automatically recognized them and hit me over the head for being so slow.

Most ceramic vessels of the period mimic silver pattern shapes, this one included. The hard paste examples will have three ornate feet, as their metal cousins did, while this soft stuff can't stand the weight when used often.

[John-Owen Kline]

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G- do you have that Fishmongers Arms pitcher with the American clipper worked up?

[Vuhginyuh]

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G- do you have that Fishmongers Arms pitcher with the American clipper worked up?

Yep. I stuck it in a seperate folder.