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    Does anyone have any idea what white china with blue spots would look like?

    Thank you.
    Sincerely,
    Emmanuel Dabney
    Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
    http://www.agsas.org

    "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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    Re: White china with blue spots

    Just a calico button, I have a few in my collection. PM me your email and I will send you a pictures...

    Jordan Ricketts
    Last edited by JordanRicketts; 06-24-2007, 08:49 PM. Reason: Addtions made
    Jordan Ricketts

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    • #3
      Re: White china with blue spots

      Sorry I should have been clearer...

      White china DISHES with blue spots.
      Sincerely,
      Emmanuel Dabney
      Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
      http://www.agsas.org

      "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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      • #4
        Re: White china with blue spots

        If they're the kind I have seen (I'm trying to remember whether they're in the Oglebay Museum collection or at the Imperial museum), they look rather like the coat of a pointer, white for the most part with small to medum blue specks throughout the glaze. I've seen some recent stoneware that looked like graniteware. If you're thinking of what I saw, the flecks are perhaps the size of a pencil eraser, more or less round to oval, on a pure, not flecked, white background. When we made ceramics a million years ago in high school, there was a commercial white glaze with chunks of blue in it. During firing, the blue melted into the distinctive spots, which are very slightly raised and often not entirely regular in color. I haven't examined the originals closely enough to tell whether the irregularity is the same in the historic pieces.
        Becky Morgan

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        • #5
          Re: White china with blue spots

          This was a style sometimes seen on ironstone of the 1850's. I cannot remember it being referred to by any particular name other than the pattern that was decorated. Many plain white ironstone patterns had varied patterns and or copper leaf applied for added decoration.

          regards,

          mark
          Mark Williams

          "One more step on the pathway of Knowledge, that is if we don't break our leg crossing the street"

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          • #6
            Re: White china with blue spots

            Emmanuel, how the spots are applied? Transfer in a symmetrical pattern? Hand applied? Atomized? Sponged?
            B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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            • #7
              Re: White china with blue spots

              Is your question raised from a period description, or from a modern museum catalog? If from a catalog, does this refer to a whole vessel or a fragment/sherd?

              Thanks, Garrett
              Garrett W. Silliman

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              • #8
                Re: White china with blue spots

                Emmanuel, there is a shop in Edinburgh that has some tea pots (what we would call Brown Betty style) in that pattern. I will try and get a photo over the weekend.
                [SIZE="2"][/SIZE][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"]John Hopper[/SIZE][/FONT]
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                • #9
                  Re: White china with blue spots

                  Thanks for responses thus far. Some questions are likely forever to remain...

                  All I have is a description of 28 pieces of white with blue spots china for breakfast.
                  Sincerely,
                  Emmanuel Dabney
                  Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
                  http://www.agsas.org

                  "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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                  • #10
                    Re: White china with blue spots

                    Where was it exactly? (I know, on the table...I mean geographically where :D)
                    Becky Morgan

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                    • #11
                      Re: White china with blue spots

                      The china was likely ordered from Philadelphia to Virginia. My own brief run-ins with this mid-century period is transferware has been in the big house to slave quarters; so I'm not certain that geography would make any difference; of course, in some cases it could.

                      I am also not saying that these spots were transferware. I just don't know, likely never will, as all there is is a description and number.

                      Thanks again for responses thus far.
                      Sincerely,
                      Emmanuel Dabney
                      Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
                      http://www.agsas.org

                      "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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                      • #12
                        Re: White china with blue spots

                        Any way to narrow down the time period?
                        John-Owen Kline

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                        • #13
                          Re: White china with blue spots

                          The latest:

                          I forgot to say that the date is a set of brand new (i.e., newly purchased then) 1851 china.

                          I got a call that some blue spotted white transferware. It was as I remember her saying mixed with some floral design. She was going to look more into the pattern, etc. to determine if it is mid century or later.

                          We don't have much to guess on here, some others have given me some potential ideas.
                          Sincerely,
                          Emmanuel Dabney
                          Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
                          http://www.agsas.org

                          "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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