Staffordshire Ceramic Ware

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Staffordshire ceramic ware. Staffordshire ware lead glazed earthenware and unglazed or salt glazed stoneware made in staffordshire england from the 17th century onward. Abundance of local clays and coal gave rise to a concentration of pottery factories that made staffordshire one of the foremost pottery centres in europe. Staffordshire toby jug in staffordshire art pottery. English ironstone indiana staffordshire art pottery.

The geography of staffordshire in central england conspired to make it a center for slipware and other types of lead glazed earthenware. Higher quality figures were made in porcelain and new ceramic materials like parian ware as well as some types of stoneware but in the 19th century staffordshire figure comes to denote specifically the cheaper earthenware types. Liberty blue plate independence hall. Thick layers of clay lay only a few feet below the surface.

The english porcelain industry was reaching its peak in staffordshire as porcelain makers were discovering the benefits of a cobalt coloring they were using. Among the distinguished factories located there. In fact there was so much of the stuff within easy reach that 18th century potters routinely dug clay right out of the roads thus giving us the. Probably the most recognized staffordshire porcelain would be blue ware or flow blue porcelain as pictured above although flow blue is more a process than a type of porcelain.

The staffordshire potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns tunstall burslem hanley stoke fenton and longton that now make up the city of stoke on trent in staffordshire england.