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How Umbrella Holders Are Made. (8582)

This transfer pottery umbrella holder has a monochrome transfer floral pattern. It’s pretty, but not terrific. It’s probably rarer than those that have the transfer design, which are then hand painted. It is marked B.& M. over a line that says China below the line.. This is an American Pottery Company that is telling it’s customers that it is made out of the material China, which tells us nothing, because there is no such thing as China. China is a generic term that means it is made from clay. The country of China was the first to make an item to eat on that wasn’t made from metal. It was called export china in those early days, as it was sent all over the world. As time passed, and other countries started to make clay dishes, there became different names for the way they made these clay dishes. Soft paste, hard paste, and porcelain to name a few. The term China today is a catch all term, that is broken down into two categories. Porcelain and Pottery. If you learn what I am telling you, you will be smarter than most antique dealers, and you will be able to impress most of your friends and relatives as you will be able to look at all the dishes in anybodies china cabinet and be able to tell them not only when it was made, see cane # , for a complete description of how to tell age, but what is made from and how it was made.
What it is made of. When you hold a dish up to the light, you can either see your hand thru it or you can’t. If you can, its porcelain, and made from petunse and Kaolin. I love saying those words; it doesn’t really matter if you pronounce them right, because 99% of those hearing them would never know. If someone corrects you them you will know how to pronounce them. Porcelain cost more to produce than pottery, which you can’t see thru. The glaze is all the way thru and is much stronger and more chip resistant, as pottery’s glaze is only on the surface and softer. When it comes to value, it’s not based on quality or rarity, or age, but supply and demand. There are many items made out of pottery that are far more valuable than the more expensive to make porcelain.
How it was made. You can’t tell how it was made without a magnifier, as you need to see the dots that are the proof of a design by transfer. All dishes either have a transfer design with hand coloring or are entirely hand painted. Entirely hand painted took an artist, as opposed to paying someone a minimum wage to fill in the colors. The Doulton holder after this one is all hand painted and is of the highest quality of workmanship. When you look at a transfer design that is hand colored, the colors commonly are outside the dots, and is easy to see with magnification.




Category: Pottery and Porcelain
Sub Category: Other


Listed: 2006-09-28 01:38:54







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