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Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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is glazed.The manner in which this continues to be done hereremains still unrivalled in perfection. (Vide MayersArt of Pottery, &c., pp. 56 and 57.) Also seeMarks and Monograms (1874), pp. 736-7, wherethere is a footnote to this effect: A book printed byhim (John Sadler) is entitled Cato Major, a poem bySamuel Catherall, M.A., printed and sold by J. Sadlerin Harrington Street, Liverpool, 1755. In the Holt and Gregson MSS. of Liverpool it isstated (vide Gattys Liverpool Potteries, 1882) :Their blue printed ware, which was invented in blackand red printing first and transferred off paper bySadler, which laid the foundation of lithographicprinting. No date is given. But we want to seeall that bears upon an obscure enquiry. As to lithographic printing the point is doubtful.Lithography was discovered in 1792 or 1796 (variouslystated) by Alois Senefelder, who patented it inGermany and Austria in 1800. Senefelder was bornat Prague in 1771. His discovery was made quite by lO Plate No. V.
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Fig. a 12. TILE, DELFT, RED PRINT.Liverpool. 1 Origin. accident and had no prompting from transfer printing(see Encyclopedia Britannica). Ultimately, chromo-lithography was used in the transfer system onceramics, but that was exactly a century after Sadlermade his affidavit for patent. A patent, dated 12thFebruary, 1856, was obtained by J. T. P. Jablonowskifor the application of chromo-lithography to potteryand porcelain. There are points here that should not be passedover, for they bear upon our evidence and the circum-stantiality thereof. The Liverpool Guide has it thatthe art in question originated at Liverpool in 1752.Why say so ? The Guide is dated 1799 ; Guy Greenretired from the business in 1799. The Guide statesthat Green still carried on the business. True ! Butthere may have been a report circulated of theprojected retirement, which actually happened shortlyafterwards. Guy Green was a notable man locally.It was quite likely a pressman would try to get all theparticulars poss

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