Four English blue and white transfer dinner plates, one J & W Ridgway plate in the 'Osterley Park' pattern, unmarked, 1814-30, one Don Pottery 'Italian Views' series plate, impressed and underglaze marks to base, 1790-1834, one plate in 'Piping Shephard' pattern, maker unknown, circa 1820, all three referenced in the dictionary of blue and white printed Pottery 1780-1880 volume I (Coysh and Henrywood), pages 111, 158, and 269. One Spode 'Caramanian Series' plate in 'Sarcophagi & Sepulchres at the head of the harbour of Cacamo' pattern, impressed and underglaze marks to base, circa 1810. Diameter 26 cm
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- Transfer Printed / Decorated Transferware - Transfer printing is method of decorating ceramics, reducing the cost of decoration when compared to employing artists to paint each piece. A print was taken on transfer-paper from an engraved copperplate, covered in ink prepared with metallic oxides, and the image on the paper was then applied to the biscuit-fired ceramic body. The print was fixed by heating the object in an oven, and then glazed, sealing the picture. Early transfer prints were blue and white, as cobalt was the only colour to stand firing without blurring. Early in the 19th century advances in the composition of the transfer paper resulted in better definition and detail, and enabled engravers to combine line-engraving with stipple.
- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
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