Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . onwas accomplished by sticking little pieces of white or yellowishplastic clay to the surface and impressing relief devices upon themwith metal or wooden stamps. Of a somewhat similar characterwas the fine red and black ware embellished with ornaments ofwhite clay stamped in relief by the aid of seals or dies, which wasbrought to great perfection by Astbury soon after 1710. At a laterdate the same potter invented his Portobello ware with emboss-ments of white pipe clay on a fine red or faun colored
Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . onwas accomplished by sticking little pieces of white or yellowishplastic clay to the surface and impressing relief devices upon themwith metal or wooden stamps. Of a somewhat similar characterwas the fine red and black ware embellished with ornaments ofwhite clay stamped in relief by the aid of seals or dies, which wasbrought to great perfection by Astbury soon after 1710. At a laterdate the same potter invented his Portobello ware with emboss-ments of white pipe clay on a fine red or faun colored body, rep-resenting ships, fortifications and figures, in commemoration of thetaking of Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon in 1739. One of the earliest varieties of slip ware was decorated by combing. While the body was still moist a slip of anothercolor was poured upon the clay. The plastic body and liquid slipwere then combed together by means of a many-pointed tool, orbrush, of leather, wood, or wire, which produced a marbled orveined effect in two colors. Tygs, posset pots, piggins, and owl-. 28. Slit-Decorated Dish. Queen Elizabeth and the Karl of Leicester. Staffordshire, England : Eighteenth Century. Nottingham Art Museum.
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