Pair, salt glazed English Japonisme stoneware pitchers, Brownfield 1881 [3438] - $195 - (Upper Black Eddy, PA)

Pair of salt glazed English Victorian Japonisme stoneware pitchers, Mistletoe pattern registered 1881. Brownfield & Son of Cobridge in northern Staffordshire produced transfer-printed and molded salt-glazed ceramics in the Japanese-influenced decorative style that prevailed in England, France, and the US in later Victorian times. Their style was perhaps an amalgam of Japanese naturalistic subjects and Arts & Crafts patterning also popular at the same time period. English molded and salt-glazed figural pitchers had been popular for many decades, usually with mythic or Biblical subjects. Salt glaze pottery is stoneware with a glaze of slightly orange-peel-like texture formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of firing. Sodium from the salt reacts with silica in the clay body to form a glassy coating of sodium silicate. The glaze may be colourless or may be imbued with colorants such as cobalt oxide. The earliest known production of salt glazed stoneware was in the German Rhineland around 1400. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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