. The color blue in pottery and porcelain. ade their glazes and pastesof varying shades, the student collector miay become acquaintedwith numberless methods of detecting differences in articlesthey examine. Old Spode cream color is unlike any other,and the blue painted and printed upon it has a different lookfrom that which decorated Leeds and wares of other potteries. Famous patterns, that have from the be<^iiining of tlie rage forblue and white, vied with eacli other for po[)ular favor, arecalled by names that have been given them sometimes by theadmiring public, but oftener by the design
. The color blue in pottery and porcelain. ade their glazes and pastesof varying shades, the student collector miay become acquaintedwith numberless methods of detecting differences in articlesthey examine. Old Spode cream color is unlike any other,and the blue painted and printed upon it has a different lookfrom that which decorated Leeds and wares of other potteries. Famous patterns, that have from the be<^iiining of tlie rage forblue and white, vied with eacli other for po[)ular favor, arecalled by names that have been given them sometimes by theadmiring public, but oftener by the designers of the patternsproduced by them, for the use of their potter patrons. Chiefamong these is the Willow pattern, designed by ThomasMinton for the use of Turner, who at that time owned potteriesin Caughley. The story of the pattern has been oft andquaintly told, but whether always correctly rendered is amatter for discussion. It will be wise for collectors to com-pare their views on the subject of the origin of many of theEnglish Delft Ware. Delft was made in Holland. It was of coarse, frir yle,sonorous pottery, which when slightly baked was covered witha thick opaque enamel, which gave the ware the appearanceof porcelain. In this enamel we note a different materialaltogether from that which was used by the English potters,called Astbury Dip when used to cover coarse clay bodies,and cream color ware when articles were made entirely ofthe finely prepared clay. The use of tin made the stanniferousenamel used in Holland absolutely opaque, and the firing con-verted it into a substance which appeared when viewed casu-ally, to be very like the porcelain imported from the far East. [ r. ] Decorations in blue upon the Holland Delft are as attractiveas they are numerous. One may almost invariably traceOriental inspiration when analyzing these designs. Basketsand fruits, flowers and animals, suggest life in the Orient, andhave been copied from Chinese and Japanese drawings onpl
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