Liverpool Delftware Flower Brick c1760

Description

Heading : Liverpool Delft-ware ‘Flower Brick’
Date : c 1760
Period : George II – George III
Marks : none
Origin : Liverpool
Colour : Blue wash over earthenware with painted darker blue design
Pattern : Pairs of cottages and ruined towers to both long sides; simple floral pattern to the short ends; each of the nineteen holes is ringed in blue

Features: The ‘perspective’ view of the cottages is typical of Liverpool designs and similar can be seen in the publication referenced below; it very much looks as if this flower brick was decorated by two different painters – one being more accomplished than the other !
Condition : no better than average; chips to all edges and around some of the hole-rims; losses to the scalloped bottom edges; cracks visible internally. but though discernable in the glaze. they have not travelled through the entire thickness of the body; similarly. there is an external glaze-crack which is not visible to the inside
Restoration : none
Dimensions : 13.6 x 5.7 x 6.8 cm
Weight : 283 grams

References: Made In Liverpool – Pottery & Porcelain 1700-1850 (Northern Ceramic Society exhibition catalogue – 1993) – p 54 et seq