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Salt glazed pottery was also popular in North America from the early 17th century until the early 19th century, [13] indeed it was the dominant domestic pottery there during the 19th century. [14] Whilst its manufacture in America increased from the earliest dated production, the 1720s in Yorktown , significant amounts were imported from ...
While salt-glazing is the typical glaze technique seen on American Stoneware, other glaze methods were employed. Vessels were often dipped in Albany Slip, a mixture made from a clay peculiar to the Upper Hudson Region of New York, and fired, producing a dark brown glaze. Albany Slip was also sometimes used as a glaze to coat the inside surface ...
A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured in Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Cologne region, in what is today western Germany. The characteristic decorative detail is a bearded face mask appearing on the ...
Mansfield also wrote a number of ceramics books, including Pottery (1986), A collector's guide to modern Australian ceramics (1988), Salt-glaze ceramics: an international perspective (1991), Contemporary ceramic art: in Australia and New Zealand (1995), Ceramics in the environment: an international review (2005). In addition she edited a number ...
Westerwald pottery, or Westerwald stoneware, is a distinctive type of salt glazed grey pottery from the Höhr-Grenzhausen and Ransbach-Baumbach area of Westerwaldkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Typically, Westerwald pottery is decorated with cobalt blue painted designs, although some later examples are white.
English delftware pottery and its painted decoration is similar in many respects to that from Holland, but its peculiarly English quality has been commented upon: "... there is a relaxed tone and a sprightliness which is preserved throughout the history of English delftware; the overriding mood is provincial and naïve rather than urbane and sophisticated."
Animals are more likely to be in salt-glazed stoneware, with green, brown and blue glazes the main colours, applied in broad strokes as highlights. The earliest figures cannot be attributed to specific makers, but by 1750 some figures are given to notable potters, such as Thomas Whieldon , who probably invented tortoiseshell ware in the late 1740s.
In 1975 she set up Millfield Pottery Workshop near Doncaster Yorkshire. [3] Hamlyn is credited with discovering the green colour that arises when painting a titanium wash over a blue slip [4] and in 1999 she was awarded the European Saltglaze Prize. [3] Along with Walter Keeler she is considered a pioneer of the salt glaze revival. [5]