Ladle

Description

Although ceramic ladles often were produced to match soup or desert tureens, it may not be surprising that such objects are rare survivals, today. Objects of this type were produced in nearly all types of refined ceramics, whether earthenware, stoneware or porcelain. As well as in Britain, such wares were made in Continental Europe and Asia. In terms of the printed ornament displayed here, variations on the "Net Pattern," featuring netted grounds as well as floral motifs, chinoiserie pavilions-in-landscapes reserves and floral borders were made at several factories in England. In Staffordshire, the Spode, Job Ridgeway, John and William Ridgeway, John Denton Bagster (or Baxter), and other factories created versions of the design. Factories in Liverpool, Lancashire, also created Net Patterns, including at the Seacombe and Herculaneum potteries. Although this object does not bear a factory mark, the set includes a dish, sauceboat, and plates bearing Spode factory marks (1996.0027.008.004, .006, .013, .018, .019, .025). (Winterthur is grateful to The Transferware Collectors Club for research support provided by the Paul and Gladys Richards Research Grant Program for Studies in British Transferware.)