Worcester Transfer Sweetmeat Dish and Hancock Hexagonal Dish

• 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.
• Monochrome / Monochromatic - A painting or drawing finished in a single colour, or in different shades of a single color.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Worcester (England), artists / engravers - Hancock, Robert 10
• Worcester (England), item types
  • other items 563
  • plates and dishes 338
• Worcester (England), patterns - L'Amour pattern 4