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SHROPSHIRE [1 record]

Record 1 1996-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pottery
DEF

... generic term for a type of red earthenware with a brilliant black glaze, first made at Jackfield in Shropshire and some Staffordshire potteries in the late-eighteenth century. Sometimes decorated with floral and scrollwork relief, or at other times with cold colours and gold.

OBS

This pottery was sometimes known as "Japanned ware".

Key term(s)
  • Jackfield
  • shining black ware

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poteries

Spanish

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