Creamware
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Creamware is a cream-coloured refined earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body, known in France as faïence fine, in the Netherlands as Engels porselein, and in Italy as terraglia inglese. It was
Josiah Wedgwood: Tea and coffee service, c. 1775. Transfer-printed in purple enamel by Guy Green of Liverpool. Victoria & Albert Museum, London
English loving-cup, 1774
Wedgwood ice-bucket (glacier) in three parts, 1770–1775, Queen's ware
Josiah Wedgwood: Four creamware plates depicting Aesop's Fables. Burslem, about 1771–1775. Printed by Guy Green, Liverpool. On display at the British Museum, London.
Transfer printing
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Transfer printing is a method of decorating pottery or other materials using an engraved copper or steel plate from which a monochrome print on paper is taken which is then transferred by pressing ont
A typical platter from the heyday of transferware, 1820–1850; an American scene ("Fair Mount near Philadelphia") in English earthenware Staffordshire pottery
A steel roller for transfer printing with the resulting end product
Tile designed by Walter Crane, c. 1890, made in Wheeling, West Virginia