Staffordshire Transferware and Flow Blue
DefinitionsDefinition of Transferware Transfer printing allowed a potter to duplicate a pattern by transferring it from a copper plate to a ceramic vessel by use of a specially treated paper. John Brooks invented the process in 1751 and it was perfected by Sadler and Green in 1756. The ceramic vessels used were Porcelain and Earthenwares. A particular type of the transferware process was the use of a single color transfer print with the addition of enamelling in bright colors in parts of the design. This process is called Polychrome Enamelling. Another process is the decoration of ceramic items with blue under-glaze designs having a smudge or blurred apparence rather than a crisp, sharp and clean pattern. The blue colors bleed or flow onto the white body of the ceramic at the time the glaze decoration is fired. The resultant wares are known as Flow Blue Wares. They are found in Semi-Porcelain, Stoneware and Porcelain. Staffordshire Transferware/Flow Blue Reference Books
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We provide an alphabetic list of potters/potteries including symbols, operational dates, certain genealogy graphics and a link for patterns by that pottery group ( a group is a genealogy sequence of potters at a particular location or for successive companies at different locations).
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