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CREAMWARE
(also called Queen's ware)
- refined lead-glazed earthenware developed by Josiah Wedgwood in 1762; became extremely popular
from ca. 1770-1800; variations appeared ca. 1820
- deep yellow creamware, ca. 1762-1780
- overglaze enameled hand painted, ca. 1765-1810
- light yellow / cream-colored, ca. 1775-1820
- first mass-produced matched sets of tableware
- first widely available ceramic with a hard-fired surface that allowed one to cut food on
its surface without chipping the glaze
- glaze on earlier products is characteristically a deep green or yellow-green where it pools
in vessel crevices (footrings, handles, molded decoration)
- although manufactured in many English potteries, the center of creamware production was
in Staffordshire and Yorkshire. Creamware was relatively cheap and so affordable to the masses.
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