Creamware
Josiah Wedgewood, one of the greatest names in England's commercial
history, was born into a Staffordshire family with a long tradition
of pottery. Wedgewood joined Thomas Whieldon in 1754 and sometime
later he succeeded in developing that light-bodies stoneware fired
at lower temperatures turned almost white. This product became known
as his celebrated "Creamware". Queen Charlotte, George
III's wife, commissioned Wedgewood to produce an entire dinner service
whereupon he promptly renamed his creamware "Queen's Ware" in her honor.
Creamware or "Queen's Ware" are the English names for
the fine lead glazed wares with a light-colored body which, from
the 1760's began to replace the tin-glazed earthenware in world
markets. They were made from the same materials as white salt-glazed
stoneware - a white clay mixed with ground flint - except that they
had a lead-glazed rather than a salt glazed.
Unlike European countries, where the division between rich and
poor continued to widen, England has a dolid layer of middle class
merchants and professional men who grew rich in the entrepreneurial
atmosphere of Georgian England. They both had the money and the
desire to live in a similar manner to those at the top of the social
tree, and represented a huge market for luxuries of all kinds. The
fashionable designs available at affordable prices in creamware
became an instant success.
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BA4223 Candlestick Pair $100.00
11 1/4H x 6L x 5W - 3 lbs.
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BA4222 Candlestick Pair $120.00
11H x 5W - 3 1/2 lbs.
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BA4221 Candlestick Pair $120.00
12H x 5 3/4W - 3 lbs.
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We are please to present this exquisite grouping of antique and
museum reproduction pieces from the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Our creamware presentation is being produced for us in
Italy by one of the world's finest craftsman.
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BA4105 Candlestick Pair $124.00
11 1/4H x 5 3/4W - 3 lbs.
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BA4103 Small Tureen $140.00
7H x 7 1/4W - 3 3/4 lbs.
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BA4101 Large Tureen $250.00
11H x 12W - 7 lbs.
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