ANTIQUE MID 19THC STAFFORDSHIRE PLATE SAMUEL ALCOCK GREEN TRANSFER MARINE PATT.
Lovely PAIR STAFFORDSHIRE Greyhounds w/Puppies~ANTIQUE
S. F.& Co. HP Crown Devon Staffordshire Platter~ANTIQUE
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE JENNY LIND PLATE
Antique Staffordshire BLUE WILLOW Dinner Plate CHARLTON ironstone transferware
Antique Pair Staffordshire King Charles Spaniels Mid To Late 19th Century 12″!
Antique Blue Staffordshire Cabinet Plate ca. 1830′s Blenheim
SALE $74.++ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLISH CHINA “ROMANTIC” LARGE CREAMER-ex cond.
Pair of Antique Staffordshire Dog Figures
Antique Asiatic Pheasant Platter- Staffordshire pottery old platters
antique staffordshire plate – franklim-maxim
ANTIQUE MINIATURE STAFFORDSHIRE HEN ON NEST COVERED DISH SALT WITH COLESLAW
Pair 2 Antique Staffordshire Dog Figurines Gilt English
Antique Staffordshire Pottery Bird Figurine Inkwell Quill Holder mid 19th c
Antique Flow Mulberry Fruit Basket pattern Plate Staffordshire England mid 19th
ANTIQUE 19TH CENTURY STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY SPILL VASE – FIGURINE
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE CHILD’S PLATE PLAYING W/ POMPEY
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE CHILD’S PLATE WALTZ DANCERS
ANTIQUE ALBANY NY FLOW BLUE ROWLAND MARSELLUS STAFFORDSHIRE SOUVENIR PLATE NR
Antique Petite Staffordshire Basket Carrying Poodle Dog
9″ STAFFORDSHIRE ANTIQUE DOG POODLE PAIR AUTHENTIC
*** LARGE ANTIQUE ENGLAND/STAFFORDSHIRE CARNATION BOWL
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE ABC CHILD’S PLATE BLIND GIRL
Very Nice Antique Staffordshire Gaudy Dutch or Gaudy Floral Decorated Creamer
ANTIQUE 1850 STAFFORDSHIRE PRINCESS VICTORIA with BILLY the GOAT FIGURINE
Staffordshire Antique Heavy Lady Figurine 1406 4 75 Curtsy Holding Up Skirt 1900
Antique Staffordshire Ironstone Blue/Grey TransferDec Tree-n-Well “LAKE” Platter
Staffordshire Antique Miniature Pitcher Floral England 2 5/8 by 2 1/4″ Dollhouse
Antique Staffordshire White Ironstone Covered Vegetable w/ Finial Pod Lid -Rough
Early Antique Staffordshire Blue Seaweed Coral Transferware Invalid Feeder
Antique Early 19th Century Staffordshire Poodle Dogs Spill Vase
ANTIQUE ADAMS SOWER STAFFORDSHIRE CUP & SAUCER TRANSFER
ANTIQUE BROWN TRANSFERWARE SOUP PLATE STAFFORDSHIRE
Pair of Antique Victorian Era Staffordshire Spaniels
Antique A. S. Burbank Plymouth Rock Plate Made in Staffordshire, England
Antique C1890 Pair Staffordshire Glass Eyed Lions excellent condition
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURINE THE TITHE PIG
Large Antique Staffordshire Horse & Rider Figure Hunter on Horseback 14.5″
LARGE ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE BLUE & WHITE MEAT STRAINER
ANTIQUE PURPLE T & J MAYER LONGPORT NONPAREIL TEAPOT 19TH CENTURY STAFFORDSHIRE
ANTIQUE PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE SPANIELS MARKED WOOD MADE IN ENGLAND 11″
An Antique Spill Vase Staffordshire Figure Group of Shepard w Dog & Sheep c1860
TWO ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE IRONSTONE BLUE / WHITE CHARGERS
Antique STAFFORDSHIRE Gravelware DOGS VASE Porcelain Figurine
Antique STAFFORDSHIRE DOG Gravelware Porcelain Figurine Statue 4″
Antique STAFFORDSHIRE DOG Gravelware Porcelain figurine Statue 3″
Antique Staffordshire Dove Partridge Pigeon Hen Bird Box On Nest Reduced
Antique Staffordshire Colored Dove Partridge Pigeon Hen Bird Box On Nest REDUCED
ANTIQUE BROWN TRANSFERWARE SOUP PLATE STAFFORDSHIRE
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire pottery figurine “Wallace”
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire pottery figurine “Rob Roy”
**ANTIQUE EARLY STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY SITTING COW FIGURINE**
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine “Duke of Cambridge”
Antique Staffordshire White and Gold Spaniel Gilt
ANTIQUE CLEVELAND OH FLOW BLUE ROWLAND MARSELLUS STAFFORDSHIRE SOUVENIR PLATE NR
Antique Flow Blue Aesthetic England Transferware Plate Staffordshire
Antique Ashworth Bros Staffordshire Flow Blue Relish Plate Dish 1860′s
2 Antique Ashworth Bro Flow Blue Staffordshire Berry Bowls Dish
Antique Staffordshire Italian Lakes Blue Transferware Small Handled Plate
RARE – Antique Pair of Standing Staffordshire Dogs
Antique Staffordshire Asiatic Pheasants Blue Transferware Divided Serving Dish
Antique Staffordshire Adams Blue Transferware Florence 7.5″Dia Excellent
Antique Staffordshire Covered Butter Holder w/ Cow Handle
ANTIQUE VICTORIAN PR MANTEL STAFFORDSHIRE SPANIEL DOGS-WHITE / GOLD GILT 10 1/2″
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE HEN ON NEST EGG CUP CANDY CONTAINER TRINKET BOX
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE BIRDS IN NEST FAIRING TRINKET BOX CANDY CONTAINER
RARE ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE ROLAND & MARSELLAS FLOW BLUE PORTRAIT VASE c1860-1890
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE LARGE COUPLE WITH VASE UNIQUE L@@K
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE Shorter & Son ENGLAND Character Mug HAYSEED With PIPE L@@K
Antique Staffordshire Spaniels c1840-1900 Pottery Ref Guide incl Ridgeway Sadler
Antique Staffordshire Blue & White pottery dinner plate
Antique Lovely Large Facing Pair Staffordshire Dogs 1800s 13″ tall 12″ wide
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine “Uncle Tom”
Antique Staffordshire White Ironstone Pitcher Ribbed Grape by E. Corn
Antique Staffordshire Purple Transferware Cup Oriental Scene
Antique Staffordshire Red Transferware Cup Milkmaid
Antique Dark Blue Staffordshire Cabinet Plate Titled “Palestine” Early 1900′s
Antique Ironstone Deep Plate Excelsior G Wooliscroft Staffordshire
ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE FAIRING COVERED CANDY CONTAINER TRINKET BOX HENS ON NEST
c1800s Antique English Victorian Staffordshire Figures Collector Guide Vol 2
Charming Antique Staffordshire Nursery/Childs Plate “Little Boy & Dog”
Fine Antique Staffordshire Nursery/Childs Plate Hunting Riding “A Morning Ride”
Rare Antique Staffordshire Porcelain – The Greyhound
Antique Staffordshire Rooster Vase Unusual Excellent Condition
Antique Staffordshire Duck Covered Dish Miniature Great Condition
Vintage Antique Old King Cole Double Faced Staffordshire Toby Jug Pitcher
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire pottery bust figurine
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire pottery man & dog figurine
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine man w/ turbin at well
Awesome Rare Color Antique Staffordshire King Charles Spaniels Hearth Dogs
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine shepherd w/ sheep
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine man eating grapes
PR ANTIQUE STAFFORDSHIRE SPANIELS W PUPS ON BLUE BASES
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine lady & anchor
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine man atop goat
Fine pr.antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurines boy & girl on goats
Fine antique 19thC. Staffordshire figurine of a zebra
pair of antique porcelain Staffordshire lion poodles
ANTIQUE OLD PINK TRANSFER SEASONS STAFFORDSHIRE PITCHER
ANTIQUE MEMPHIS TENN FLOW BLUE ROWLAND MARSELLUS STAFFORDSHIRE SOUVENIR PLATE NR
Antique Lighting – Bisque Porcelain Antique Lamps
Bisque porcelain or biscuit porcelain, takes its name from it’s first or initial firing, when the brittle porcelain could be snapped off like a biscuit. Bisque porcelain is also widely known as “biscuit ware”, unglazed ware and more popularly as “parian” ware.
All bisque or parian porcelain is unglazed and in Victorian times was admired for its sculptural qualities. The name “Parian” is in fact attributed to Thomas Minton, the famous 19th century English potter, who coined the name Parian after Paros, the Greek island that quarried much of the pure white sculptural marble used in studios.
Of course, the originator of porcelain was China, including unglazed white bisque porcelain. Known to the Chinese potters as “Fan Ts’u”. China was, before the 18th century, the only producer of porcelain in the world and this fact is commemorated by the standard name we give to porcelain, China!
When porcelain receives its first firing, it is porous. It is then glazed and refired. This second firing causes the glaze to fuse with the porous shape and become vitrified, or “glass-like”. From this “glazed in the white” state, it is then moved to the decorating department to be painted by skilful porcelain painters, or to be transfer printed. At the finish of this decorating process, the shape is then refired to fix the coloured enamels.
If gilding is to be applied, the shape is fired yet again with each firing at a lower temperature than the last, the heat being gradually reduced.
In the production of bisque porcelain, the porcelain is left in the white and unglazed. Ceramic glazes have an enormous benefit to porcelain manufacturers as glazes hide faults. With bisque, this helpful element is missing and quality is entirely dependent on detailed modeling and production control.
A fine pair of, English, high Victorian, or possibly, American made, slip cast, bisque lamps. Bisque, also known as “biscuit”, is unglazed porcelain which has been fired only once.
The lamps of formal neo classic style with a deep cream colour. The upper section of the lamps, moulded as formal acanthus compositions and the central urn shapes moulded with evenly spaced swags supported by tied ribbons. The centres of the urns decorated with large loose bouquets of garden flowers and foliage supported by a suspended tie.The urn shaped lamps on short circular socles, the rims dragooned and standing on square shaped plinths.
Bisque, with a new creamy colour was revived in 1846 and again at the close of the 19th century. It has a range of colours, from white to cream and was also known as “Parian”, a reference to the white marble from the Greek island of Paros, much sought by sculptors. Bisque was much favored throughout the Victorian period, due to its rather sculptured appearance.
A very stylish pair of late Victorian lamps. Circa 1890 t (including shades) 20 ” / 50 cm
Although we still retain the name “bisque porcelain”, modern production methods now produce a hard, durable, ceramic body, without the brittleness of very earlier bisque which required glazing to stabilize the shape.
In Europe, pure white, bisque porcelain, just like a ballerina, stepped onto centre stage in the 1750′s with the production of stunning portrait busts and figure groups in dazzling, white marble look-a-like.
At the Vincennes factory, a beautiful series of children, modelled from sketches by Boucher and modelled by Blondeau were produced with other mid 18th century factories, like Sévres and Mennecy, producing figure subjects of sublime quality.
In 18th century England, the Derby factory produced finely detailed figures in undecorated bisque. With English figures being conventionally decorated in colour, these figures must have looked outstanding.
The English 18th century highpoint came in 1774, with Josiah Wedgwood’s discovery of jasper. Jasper is a fine grained, unglazed stoneware, now so well recognised as to be seen as synonymous with the name of Wedgwood. Jasper was copied by the French at Sévres, in biscuit porcelain and at other French and German factories.
By the end of the 18th century, as usual, tastes changed and the unadorned, neo classic styles predominated. Bisque porcelain reached new heights of refinement with elegant Regency styles. Bisque library busts, Wedgwood unglazed white jasper and elegant French and English bisque models.
Bisque, with a new creamy colour was reintroduced by Copeland in Staffordshire in 1846 and was soon taken up by other English and American makers.
And now, for the technical part!
The production of a bisque porcelain figure, or lamp base, begins with the eye of the designer, who, with sketch pad and pencil, outlines the design idea. This idea, will naturally, be framed by the contemporary styles of the time.
Bisque porcelain, like all complex ceramic shapes, is cast or slip moulded. Slip is liquid slurry, which is comprised of potters’ clay mixed with water to a semi liquid creamy state which is literally poured into preformed plaster of Paris moulds to take shape.
Slip is the raw material behind the beautiful porcelains we see. This liquid porcelain is a mixture of kaolin, feldspar and finely ground flint. Kaolin is naturally occurring, very fine clay with a high percentage of silicate. Feldspar is a crystalline mineral, also with a high level silicate content and the finely ground flint is a hard quartz.
This lists only the primary content of this porcelain mixture, which was refined and developed over hundreds of years. The chemistry is much more complex with potassium, sodium and calcium contributing to the finished product.
Both pottery and porcelain are made by pouring the slip into plaster moulds, the plaster absorbing water from the slip, causing a firm layer to form, the surplus then being poured off.
It is interesting to note that the tradition of slip casting with plaster of Paris, preshaped moulds is not new, the process being introduced in England in about 1745, reputedly by a potter named Ralph Daniels of Cobridge.
When the remaining slip has become cheese hard or sometimes referred to as “leather hard”, the plaster moulds are removed and the slip cast shapes assembled to produce the desired design.
Traditionally, this assembly function was performed by a member of the staff called “the repairer”. It was his job to remove all seams and smooth out any traces of the mould. This finishing process is much the same as today with slip being used to act as an adhesive.
When the assembly is completed, the shapes are thoroughly air dried to allow the pieces to dry. The now finished shape is sent to the kiln for firing.
Some things never change and the basic production of this elegant porcelain it would seem is one of them.
These bisque lamps can be seen on The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co’s web site -:
http://www.antiquelampshop.com/lamp-chat.php?id=38
The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique lamps with an exclusive on-line range of over 100 unique lamps. Lamps are shipped ready wired for the US, the UK and Australia.
And remember, a good lamp, was hard to find!
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About the Author
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co, has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery, with his commercial experience spanning a period of over 45 years,including valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site and is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects. He has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
