carpet ball
Report a Mistake- Date Made Circa 1890 - Circa 1910
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- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number A-2866 a-m
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- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Ontario, Municipality - Ottawa, Township / District - Ottawa-Carleton, County ofContinent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Quebec, Municipality - Iberville, Township / District - Iberville, County of
- Category Recreational artifacts
- Sub-category Sports equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1885/01/01
- Latest 1915/12/31
- Materials Earthenware
- Measurements Outside Diameter 8.0 cm
- Caption Underglaze Transfer-Printed Earthenware
- Additional Information White earthenware was sometimes decorated by hand-painting. It was, however, as the background for the British-invented method of printing under the glaze on ceramic wares that it achieved its widest use. This semi-mechanical decorating technique had reached the Staffordshire earthenware potters by the 1780s. Trial and error brought it to perfection in the early nineteenth-century. Since blue was the first colour mastered for underglaze work, the whole process was termed "blue printing," even after other colours became possible. Excerpt from exhibition text: 19th Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada, March 1994 to January 1997.