Name/TitleBowl
About this objectLarge white bowl with blue Willow Pattern. It was manufactured by Swinnertons of Staffordshire. Swinnertons Pottery began manufacturing pottery using the famous 'Willow Pattern' in 1906 and continued until 1973.
The Willow pattern is a distinctive and elaborate chinoiserie pattern used on ceramic kitchen/housewares. It became popular at the end of the 18th century in England when, in its standard form, it was developed by English ceramic artists combining and adapting motifs inspired by fashionable hand-painted blue-and-white wares imported from China. Its creation occurred at a time when mass-production of decorative tableware, at Stoke-on-Trent and elsewhere, was already making use of engraved and printed glaze transfers, rather than hand-painting, for the application of ornament to standardized vessels (transfer ware).
Medium and MaterialsBowl: china
Pattern: Transfer print
Inscription and MarksInscription printed bottom makers mark - (Swinnertons: Staffordshire England: "Old Willow")
MeasurementsHeight. 60mm
Diameter: 230mm
Object numberSTMEA:1988-1.3
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial (cc)
