basin

Britannia Pottery Co. Ltd.

1880 - Circa 1895

earthenware

Canadian Museum of History

A white earthenware basin with a brown transferware pattern of floral motifs and pastoral scenes. The interior features a central image of a landscape with a building. A white earthenware basin with a brown transferware pattern of floral motifs and pastoral scenes. The interior features a central image of a landscape with a building. White earthenware was sometimes decorated by hand-painting. It was, however, as the background for the British-invented method of printing under the glaze on ceramic wares that it achieved its widest use. This semi-mechanical decorating technique had reached the Staffordshire earthenware potters by the 1780s. Trial and error brought it to perfection in the early nineteenth-century. Since blue was the first colour mastered for underglaze work, the whole process was ter