Limoges Porcelain Set with Gilt Details
Forty eight pieces of Limoges porcelain, comprising a large selection of twenty two white plates, eleven rimmed soup or dessert bowls with associated dishes all edged with a gilt rope design, two white impressed dishes and six plates and a footed dish with transfer designs, gilt floral patterns to the rims; all marked underside. Various shapes and sizes
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- Transfer Printed / Decorated Transferware - Transfer printing is method of decorating ceramics, reducing the cost of decoration when compared to employing artists to paint each piece. A print was taken on transfer-paper from an engraved copperplate, covered in ink prepared with metallic oxides, and the image on the paper was then applied to the biscuit-fired ceramic body. The print was fixed by heating the object in an oven, and then glazed, sealing the picture. Early transfer prints were blue and white, as cobalt was the only colour to stand firing without blurring. Early in the 19th century advances in the composition of the transfer paper resulted in better definition and detail, and enabled engravers to combine line-engraving with stipple.
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