1820.Īntique Rare 18th C Huge 34cm 13.4" Leeds Feather Edge Pearlware Charger Dish. LB2 Staffordshire 4 Leeds Pearlware Childs Toy Set Saucers Ca. HARTLEY GREENS & CO Leeds Pottery Creamware Pierced Plate. For insurance purposes, insuring a high-value item or collection, we recommend a first-hand appraisal and renewed valuation every 5-7 years.ĪNTIQUE HARTLEY GREEN & CO LEEDS POTTERY PEARLWARE BLUE & WHITE MUG C1820. The value of antiques, art and vintage collectables can fluctuate, and vary between trade, auction & open-market values, retail prices and insurance valuations. *Leeds Pottery Prices are published as a guide only. # 48118 Leeds Pottery Barrel Shape Blue And White MugĪ Leeds pottery barrel shape blue and white Mug printed cattle in landscape, 4 1/4in, impressed mark SEARCH 1,000,000's of Antiques, Art, Vintage, Retro, and RARE Collectors' items on eBay :) TIP! Search Antique, Vintage, RARE, Collectable, Collectors, Classic, Fine, Unusual, Early, Old, etc to help you find more (or less!) leeds pottery. Plus TODAY's SELECTED Leeds Pottery for Sale,Īrt, Antiques, Mid-Century, Vintage & RARE Collectors' items. FIND 1000's of Antiques, Art, Vintage & RARE Collectables - each item pictured, described and with it's price guide.
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Links to originals here: Wedgwood plate, teapot, American pitcher.Home > Antiques Price Guide > Leeds Potteryīrowse FREE Leeds Pottery Price & Value Guide. Some of it was not at all fashionable, and was much coarser or browner than the cream ceramics produced by the innovative 18th century manufacturers. By this time the names creamware and queensware were applied to a wider range of pottery. Wedgwood-style creamware continued to be popular until the mid-19th century. Many of the potters described their products as queensware, or like queensware. By the 1790s Philadelphia was a centre for manufacturing this kind of tableware. English-made for the American market, this was one of many similar exports leaving from Liverpool.Īmerica’s own creamware production started with John Bartlam in 1770s South Carolina. It was also used for commemorative items, like the pitcher, or jug, in the photo. It brought a finer kind of tableware to middle-class families, and wasn’t only for the rich. Photo by CliffĬreamware was popular for a wide range of household pottery appearing in the Georgian dining-room and on the tea-table. Creamware pitcher c1800 with transfer-printed "Apotheosis of George Washington". Other decorative effects on creamware included piercing and embossing. This is not only cheaper than hand painting it also allows for a very detailed surface design with elaborate drawing and lettering. He soon came back into the lead with a “pearl white”, now known as pearlware.Ĭreamware lent itself to decoration with transfer printing. In the mid-1770s one of Wedgwood’s rivals got ahead with a pale “china glaze”. He described it as “quite new in appearance, covered with rich and brilliant glaze, bearing sudden alterations of heat and cold, manufactured with ease…and consequently cheap.”Ĭompetition amongst potters to produce whiter ceramics continued. Photo by Leeds MuseumsĪlthough there were other potteries making creamware, and other people also made crucial discoveries, Wedgwood got the acclaim for being the first to make a high quality pale cream earthenware. Creamware teapot made c1770 in Yorkshire or Staffordshire. So Queen’s ware, or queensware, is a kind of creamware, but not all creamware is queensware. Also important were his design expertise and the clear glaze.Īfter Queen Charlotte ordered a cream table service from Wedgwood he “branded” his cream pottery by calling it Queen’s ware, and didn’t use the name creamware himself. Part of his success depended on clay from south-west England. One of the most successful versions of creamware came from the well-known English potter Josiah Wedgwood who managed to make paler earthenware than anyone else in the 1760s. This new creamware was developed during the mid-1700s. Others worked on more affordable earthenware, trying various clay and flint blends in the search for pale, creamy colours. Photo by Maia CĬhinese porcelain seemed fine, white and desirable to 18th century Europe, and it inspired skilled potters there to develop their own versions of porcelain.