SIZE
8 1/4” diameter

DESCRIPTION
The earliest form of pearlwares were the so-called “China Glaze” pieces with shell edge and hand decorated Chinoiserie designs. (Ref: 2001— Miller and Hunter “How Creamware Got the Blues: The origins of China Glaze and Pearlware” in Ceramics in America, R. Hunter, ed.

See fig 32 which is similarly decorated. Hunter and Miller speculate this is a later rendering because the landscape omits the house. Archaeologists and evolutionists tend to assume simplification is a characteristic of temporal seriation. I’m not sure I agree. This piece and others like it also have other early features such as single line drawing of the blue on the shell edge. I wouldn’t bet these “non house” pieces are not just as early as the others.

This design has a interesting and charming aspect. Very folky. Likely Staffordshire or Yorkshire. ex Bruce Knight Personal collection, Springfield Ohio

CONDITION
Chips and edge-wear as shown; no cracks, or repairs.

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