Vintage Australian Children's Tea Set and Plates, Mid-Late 20th Century
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A vintage children's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie tea set together with two Australian themed plates, mid to late 20th century, a Japanese lustre glaze and transferware Snugglepot & Cuddlepie tea set, a 'Bush Babies' series ware plate featuring a May Gibb's illustration, Bradford Exchange, numbered M 645, and a Villeroy & Boch Scenes of Australia collector plate, No 3 Country Races, backstamps to all verso, the teapot 8 cm high, the Villeroy & Boch plate 23.5 cm diameter
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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.
- Verso - Verso is the "back" side of a sheet of paper, art work, coin or medal. The front side is "recto".
- Lustre Ware - Lustre decoration on ceramics is created by painting a thin deposit of metal oxide such as gold, silver or copper onto the surface, and then firing the item again, so that metal oxide forms a thin film on the surface. The finished effect is a shiny metallic surface. The technique was used in the 19th century by potteries such as Crown Devon, Grimwades, Maling, and Royal Doulton. However the best known use was by Wedgwood for its Fairyland lustre.
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