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What is English pearlware?

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What is English pearlware?
English pearlware is created by introducing a cobalt glaze to creamware, which creates a bluish tint in the final product. This type of pottery finish was created in the 1770s by Wedgwood. Shop a collection of expertly vetted English pearlware from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
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Antique English Figural Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A good rare Prattware pottery model of a baby's cradle. Decorated with orange and blue intersecting circles throughout the body and embellished yellow and green highlights, cir...
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Antique Late 18th Century English George III Ceramics

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Pottery

English Staffordshire Prattware Pottery Figure of a Stag
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Staffordshire Prattware Pottery Figure of a Recumbent Stag Circa 1800–1820 This appealing hollow-bodied pottery model depicts a stag in a recumbent pose, its legs folded ben...
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Animal Sculptures

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Pearlware, Pottery

Newcastle Prattware Pottery Model of a Horse, St. Anthony Pottery, Newcastle
By Saint Anthony Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Newcastle Folk Art: A St. Anthony Prattware Pottery Horse St. Anthony Pottery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Circa 1800–1820 This charming early 19th-century model is a quintessential exampl...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Animal Sculptures

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Pearlware, Pottery

Antique English Staffordshire Prattware Pottery Rooster or Cockrel Figurine
By Thomas Whieldon Pottery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A antique English prattware model of a cockerel or rooster. With mottled decoration in ochres and yellow. The base bears an old partial D. M. & P. Manheim label with a Whieldo...
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Antique Late 18th Century British Country Animal Sculptures

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Pottery

Large Antique English Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Model of a Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A late 18th or early 19th century English Prattware baby's cradle in a rare large size. Decorated with an overall basket weave pattern and a yellow and green glaze. Measures: L...
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Antique Late 18th Century English George III Ceramics

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Pottery

Antique Georgian Prattware Pottery Figure, Flora The Goddess Of Spring, C. 1800
Located in Bristol, GB
ANTIQUE ENGLISH CERAMIC FIGURINE A wonderfully charming figure depicting the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, Flora. In a typically naive style with an extremely characterful f...
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Antique Early 1800s English George III Ceramics

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Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery

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