Type Name:

CREAMWARE, TRANSFER PRINTED

Category:

REFINED EARTHENWARE

Production Origin:

ENGLAND

Production Date Range:

1770-1815

Defining Attributes:

White to light cream-colored, thin, hard, compact (although slightly porous) paste.

Creamy yellow surface glaze caused by the addition of copper to a transparent lead glaze.

Yellowish to greenish cast where glaze pools.

Black transfer printed decoration in a variety of pastoral, naturalistic, social and commemorative designs.

Vessel Forms:

PLATE
PLATTER

Comments:

Published Definitions:

Noel Hume 1969, South 1977, Miller 1991, Noel-Hume 2001:209-222