Romantic Transferware Polychrome
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Romantic Transferware: 1830's and 40's
By 1830's, Staffordshire potters had achieved a high level of mastery in the use of paper "transfer" prints to convey decorative images from engraved copper plates to yet-unglazed ceramic tableware. Changes in transferware production about this time, however, mark a distinct break from the products of the previous decades. Most dramatically, the introduction of new pigments that could reliably stand up to firing temperatures enabled potters to produce a profusion of wares in light blue, red, brown, black, purple, green, and - though quite rare - yellow.
In addition, potters tended to rely less on previously published prints as design sources, and finally in 1842, new copyright laws prohibited such copying. As a result imaginary scenes based on landscape formulas replaced earlier depictions of specific locations, hence the term "Romantic" transferware.
Other traits distinguish the production of this period.