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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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ibe all of them is beyond theScope of this small volume. In some cases it wouldbe very interesting to pursue the subject. Notablythose of Plymouth, Bristol, Newcastle, Sunderland,Castleford, The Don, Whittington, Ferrybridge andothers. In the case of Whittington, for instance,some experiments were made with bat printing by thefather of Llewellynn Jewitt. In Staffordshire, ofcourse, there are a crowd of men who could be noticedin detail. Such a mass of information would requirevolumes to absorb it. Some notable manufacturers,indeed, should have monographs of their lives andworks to each of them. The development of the early 19th centurytransfer printing was largely prompted by theAmerican war at the close of the 18th century. Thegreat struggle with our North American Coloniesended in 1783 by their Independence being acknow-ledged. That campaign gave birth to many historic * Nearly every factory in Staffordshire Potteries does some transfer printingat the present time. 82 Plate No. XXX.
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Fig. C 6. DISH, WHITE WARE, BLUE PRINT.Lakin. Development in the 19th Century. scenes. In a few years afterwards the Liverpoolpotters took advantage of the idea and began to makesuitable wares and shapes for the American market,with historic scenes depicted on them. This affordeda great field and stimulus to the potting trade atLiverpool. The Staffordshire potters were not long infollowing the example. In the early years of the19th century the deep, dark blue ware was turned out.One of the first potters to make it and find anAmerican market for his enterprise is said to havebeen Enoch Wood. Many others soon went into thesame branch and, by a consensus of feeHng, eachpotter adopted a differently designed border todistinguish his productions. By that time the pottingtrade in Staffordshire must have developed verylargely. An index to it may be found in the map of1802, pubHshed at Hanley. An extract from it isgiven by W. Chaffers, see Marks and Monograms,p. 617, of the 4th edition. It is

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