Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom . eson pottery greatly improved in quality and shapesformed with additional taste and elegance. Thispottery has a rich and delicate appearance and, owingto the blue printed having become common, the otheris now obtaining a decided preference in the mostgenteel circles. Muspratt in Industrial Chemistry, p. 832,confirms Shaw and gives a list of the modern under-glaze colours, yellow, orange, fine brown, brown,yellow green, blue green, rose colour pink, purple, black,blue for flowing, and
Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom . eson pottery greatly improved in quality and shapesformed with additional taste and elegance. Thispottery has a rich and delicate appearance and, owingto the blue printed having become common, the otheris now obtaining a decided preference in the mostgenteel circles. Muspratt in Industrial Chemistry, p. 832,confirms Shaw and gives a list of the modern under-glaze colours, yellow, orange, fine brown, brown,yellow green, blue green, rose colour pink, purple, black,blue for flowing, and blue for ordinary printing. Hegives analyses and other particulars. With regard topurple we have it from Mr. R. W. Binns that obtained an underglaze delicate purple about themiddle of the 18th century. But this is Mr. Binns son questions it. As to black, thereis a jug illustrated in these pages (Fig. A 30), signedT. Fletcher. It is a black underglaze at sides, though * Shaw probably meant a strong pink, as a true red cannot yet be obtainedexcept on the glaze. 84 Plate No. Fig. C 8. CUP and SAUCER, PORCELAIN, BLUE PRINTShorthose. I Development in the 19th Century. overglaze in front. Fletcher resided at Shelton. Heis recorded in the map of 1802 as a black printer andenameller, and his business closed there in 1810—vide Marks and Monograms, 4th ed., p. 700. Henceblack underglaze was discovered at least fifteen yearsprevious to pink, etc., unless the secret died withFletcher and it had to be rediscovered. The deep, dark blue underglaze, the decoration ofthe ware with historic scenes, and the introductionof underglaze colours later on, were the leadingcharacteristics of the early nineteenth centurytransfer printing. These developments had a greateffect upon the American market. The English pottercatered for it in many ways, and, now, although onlya century old, the products of that period are beingsought for with avidity by the American
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