Featheredge Creamware Pottery

Featheredge Creamware pottery has become so popular...

By Sharon Stajda

The very pretty delicate dishes that are known as featheredge creamware pottery was produced by many 18th and 19th century pottery companies. Companies such as include , Wedgwood, and Spode. Each company had several variations in design, depending on the artists design concept. Each company had its own design pattern for the featheredge used on a given item. The pottery piece was formed from a soft paste clay, and glazed in cream color, with a color used at the edge that slifgtly bled into the cream color. The edges also possessed an impressed design, hence the name featheredge. There were several colors used for the color at the edge. Color's such as: hues of green, red, yellow, and blue.

The pieces that have red or yellow are the more scarce today, and hold a higher value than the green or blue pieces. Although the pieces that have the green edge are still very valuable, and much easier to find. The going rate for a nice piece of creamware with a green edge, will range from $200.00 to $5,000.00.

Today there are many pottery companies that are producing wonderful reproduction featheredge creamware. This enables one to have the wonderful look of the antique creamware, but without the high cost that comes with buying antique creamware.

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CREAMWARE PATTERNS: Creamware was first made in raised patterns of basket weave and in pierced and perforated leaf and diamond and rice-grain designs similar to those on the earlier salt glaze. Shellwork, fluting, and raised beaded borders were also used. Wedgwood made some of the finest pierced creamware. Edges and rims were embossed with ridges, lines, gadroon, and featherwork. The more elaborate pieces such as pierced fruit baskets, centerpieces, candelabra and candlesticks were fluted, scalloped, and decorated with festoons and other raised decoration as well as pierced patterns--- Please read on...
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The story of this greatest of English potters is inspiring, and his product was unquestionably the finest that England has ever produced, in
workmanship, design, material, and color. When Josiah Wedgwood started in the potter's trade, most of the tables of the middle classes in England bore only crude clay dishes, pewter, and woodenware. Saltglaze ware was too costly, and it remained for Wedgwood to provide those tables with good ware, perfect in form and material, at a low cost. But he did far more than this.--- Please read more...
SPODE CHINA - C. 1789 TO PRESENT DAY (Copeland's): HISTORY. Not long after the middle of the eighteenth century, Josiah Spode the elder or "Old Spode," to quote the name by which he is often known, established a pottery near Stoke-on-Trent and produced a great variety of earthenware of beautiful quality. He was a man of cultivation, intelligence, initiative and sound business enterprise and, in the latter part of the century, he entered upon experiments in making porcelain. Please read on...

Blue edged featheredge Creamware Plate

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