Description: An exhibition featuring 19th-century Staffordshire potters producing blue printed earthenware with historical American themes and a database of ceramic shapes and patterns celebrating the New United States.
blue and white (26) english pottery (5) transfer ware (5) english potters (4) dark blue printed pottery (4) transfer-printed pottery (4) historical views (4) patriotic pottery (4) british american trade (4) american historical staffordshire (3)
The Transferware Collectors Club, Winterthur Museum, and Historic New England invite you to explore British pottery decorated with American themes.
What events in American and British history led to the creation of dark blue-printed pottery celebrating the new republic? Which British potters responded to the challenge of supplying the patriotic American market? How did the trans-Atlantic trade develop?
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