Pearlware

Scope note

Use for earthenware produced by Josiah Wedgewood from 1779, distinguished from his creamware by having a greater percentage of flint and white clay in the body and a trace of cobalt oxide in the glaze which gives it a bluish white cast.

This term has 112 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Keyword
Object category
Object name

Getty AAT term number

3000261855

Broader Terms used

Term used for

pearl ware
pearl-white
ware, pearl

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Plate

Plate

Maker(s)

Production: Liverpool

An image of Plaque

Plaque: Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-93)

An image of Jug

Jug

An image of Figure group

Wombwell's Menagerie

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Pottery

Jug

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

An image of Jug

Jug

Maker(s)

Factory: Bill, Simpson & Co.

An image of Figure group

Perswaition

Maker(s)

Potter: Walton, John

An image of Coffee pot

Coffee pot

Maker(s)

Production: Neale & Co. (Uncertain)
Unknown (Uncertain)

An image of Figure group

Bacchus and Ariadne or Priapos and a Maenad

Maker(s)

Factory: Wood, Enoch (Possibly)
Factory: Wood & Caldwell (Probably)

An image of Figure

Apollo

Maker(s)

Production: Neale & Co.
Production: Wilson, Robert

An image of Figure

Lucretia

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

An image of Root dish

Root dish

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

An image of Jug

Jug

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown (Uncertain)

An image of Mug

Mug

Maker(s)

Factory: uncertain

An image of Figure

James Quin in the role of Sir John Falstaff

Maker(s)

Production: Wood & Caldwell

An image of Plate

Plate

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

An image of Figure

Boy representing Winter from a set of Seasons

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

An image of Figure

A Wise Virgin

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified

An image of Figure

Summer

Maker(s)

Factory: uncertain

An image of Figure

Ariadne

Maker(s)

Production: Lakin & Poole (Probably)

An image of Figure

Winter

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

An image of Figure

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Maker(s)

Production: Wood, Ralph II (Probably)

An image of Plate

Plate

Maker(s)

Factory: uncertain

An image of Plate

Plate

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown (Perhaps)

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