Chintzware
Chintzware, or chintz pottery, describes chinaware and pottery covered with a dense, all-over pattern of flowers (similar to chintz textile patterns) or, less often, other objects. It is a form of transferware where the pattern is applied by transfer printing as opposed to the more traditional method of painting by hand.
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The main firms making chintzware were English, nearly all part of the huge Staffordshire pottery industry. including as Grimwades (trade name Royal Winton), A.G. Richardson & Co. (trade name Crown Ducal), James Kent Ltd., Shelley Potteries Ltd., and Elijah Cotton Ltd. (trade name Lord Nelson) and between them turned out a great variety of chintz dinnerware, teaware, and ornamental pieces mostly from the 1920s to the 1960s.[1] There were over 50 different patterns in various colours available.[2] While often made in pottery, some manufacturers such as Shelley produced bone china chintzware, particularly after World War II.[1] Chintzware was also copied at the time by German, Czech and Japanese manufacturers.
Royal Winton began reproducing a few of their chintz patterns in the mid-to-late 1990s.[1]
References
- Bagdade, Susan & Al (2004). Warman's English & continental pottery & porcelain (4th ed.). Iola, WI: KP Books. pp. 51–52. ISBN 9780873495059. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- Husfloen, Kyle, ed. (2006). Antique Trader pottery & porcelain ceramics price guide (5th ed.). Iola, Wis.: KP. p. 152. ISBN 9780896894181.
Further reading
- Eileen Rose Busby, Royal Winton Porcelain: Ceramics Fit for a King, Antique Publishers, 1998.
- Susan Scott, The Charlton Standard Catalogue of Chintz, 3rd ed. Charlton Press, 1999.
- Kelly L. Moran, Shelley Chintz: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pattern Books, Thaxted Cottage, 1999, ISBN 0-9676925-0-4.
- Jo Anne P. Welsh, Chintz Ceramics, 3rd ed., Schiffer Publishing, 2000.
- Francis Joseph Publications, The Chintz Collectors Handbook, 1999.
- Muriel M. Miller, Collecting Royal Winton Chintz, Francis Joseph Publications, 1996.