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The "Gaudies"
“Gaudy” ceramics are various 19th-century British wares decorated with bold hand-painted patterns in bright blue, red or orange, and green. The predominately floral designs were loosely adapted from motifs found on imported Japanese porcelain, which had caught the fancy of Europeans. While expensive Imari imitations were made at factories like Derby and Worcester, other firms produced more affordable copies for the middle class. Best known in country are Gaudy Dutch and Gaudy Welsh, manufactured in quantity by British potteries for American tables.
English merchants attempted to woo the transatlantic market by suiting their product lines to the winds of fashion in the United States, Gaudy Dutch, a soft-paste porcelain ware, so named by collectors for its popularity among the Pennsylvania Germans, is now highly prized by Americana enthusiasts. Buyers have invented descriptive names like Butterfly and Zinnia to identify the patterns. Most pieces were not marked by their manufacturers.
Gaudy Welsh is a distinctive porcelain ware with its own group of fans. Made somewhat later than Gaudy Dutch, around 1820 to 1860, Gaudy Welsh bears the same palette of bright colors with the addition of gold luster. Although some pieces were indeed made at Welsh potteries such as Swansea, the majority probably came from the Staffordshire district in England. Once again, marked pieces are rare, and collectors refer to patterns by popular descriptive titles.
English merchants attempted to woo the transatlantic market by suiting their product lines to the winds of fashion in the United States, Gaudy Dutch, a soft-paste porcelain ware, so named by collectors for its popularity among the Pennsylvania Germans, is now highly prized by Americana enthusiasts. Buyers have invented descriptive names like Butterfly and Zinnia to identify the patterns. Most pieces were not marked by their manufacturers.
Gaudy Welsh is a distinctive porcelain ware with its own group of fans. Made somewhat later than Gaudy Dutch, around 1820 to 1860, Gaudy Welsh bears the same palette of bright colors with the addition of gold luster. Although some pieces were indeed made at Welsh potteries such as Swansea, the majority probably came from the Staffordshire district in England. Once again, marked pieces are rare, and collectors refer to patterns by popular descriptive titles.
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