White china with blue spots

[Emmanuel Dabney]

Does anyone have any idea what white china with blue spots would look like?

Thank you.

[JordanRicketts]

Just a calico button, I have a few in my collection. PM me your email and I will send you a pictures...

Jordan Ricketts

[Emmanuel Dabney]

Sorry I should have been clearer...

White china DISHES with blue spots.

[Becky Morgan]

If they're the kind I have seen (I'm trying to remember whether they're in the Oglebay Museum collection or at the Imperial museum), they look rather like the coat of a pointer, white for the most part with small to medum blue specks throughout the glaze. I've seen some recent stoneware that looked like graniteware. If you're thinking of what I saw, the flecks are perhaps the size of a pencil eraser, more or less round to oval, on a pure, not flecked, white background. When we made ceramics a million years ago in high school, there was a commercial white glaze with chunks of blue in it. During firing, the blue melted into the distinctive spots, which are very slightly raised and often not entirely regular in color. I haven't examined the originals closely enough to tell whether the irregularity is the same in the historic pieces.

[PvtWill]

This was a style sometimes seen on ironstone of the 1850's. I cannot remember it being referred to by any particular name other than the pattern that was decorated. Many plain white ironstone patterns had varied patterns and or copper leaf applied for added decoration.

regards,

mark

[Vuhginyuh]

Emmanuel, how the spots are applied? Transfer in a symmetrical pattern? Hand applied? Atomized? Sponged?

[Garrett Silliman]

Is your question raised from a period description, or from a modern museum catalog? If from a catalog, does this refer to a whole vessel or a fragment/sherd?

Thanks, Garrett

[jacobite8749]

Emmanuel, there is a shop in Edinburgh that has some tea pots (what we would call Brown Betty style) in that pattern. I will try and get a photo over the weekend.

[Emmanuel Dabney]

Thanks for responses thus far. Some questions are likely forever to remain...

All I have is a description of 28 pieces of white with blue spots china for breakfast.

[Becky Morgan]

Where was it exactly? (I know, on the table...I mean geographically where )