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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 114 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Keyword
Object category
Object name

Getty AAT term number

3000261855

Broader Terms used

earthenware

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Plate

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

Mug

Maker(s)

Factory: uncertain

Coffee pot

Maker(s)

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

Plate

Maker(s)

Production: Leeds Pottery

Jug

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery (Possibly)

Jug

Maker(s)

Factory: Bill, Simpson & Co.

Plate

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown (Perhaps)

Plate

Maker(s)

Production: Liverpool

Fragment of a jug

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Plate

Maker(s)

Factory: uncertain

Jug

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown (Uncertain)

Shakespeare

Maker(s)

Pottery: Wood, Enoch
Pottery: Wood & Caldwell
Designer: Kent, William (After)
Sculptor: Scheemakers, Peter (After)
Cast maker: Vanina, Peter

Shepherd

Maker(s)

Pottery: Wood, Ralph, II (Probably)

Root dish

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

Mug

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified

The Widow of Zarapheth

Maker(s)

Production: Wood, Ralph II
Production: Wood, Ralph III (Perhaps)

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