Object Description
This bowl, likely part of a large dinner service, features Wedgwood's sophisticated powder-blue or bleu souffle glaze. Wedgwood's designers were inspired by 18th-century Chinese porcelains with chuiqing ("blown blue") glaze and gilded designs. To achieve this air-brushed effect, artisans at the Jingdezhen kilns blew powdered cobalt onto unglazed biscuit through a bamboo shoot covered at the end of a fine silk gauze. A second firing secured the powder onto the piece. Wedgwood's designers studied early Chinese examples in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and perfected the glaze at Wedgwood. Wedgwood first introduced wares decorated with this glaze and gilding in 1912. Further research may reveal how long this design was in production and the size of the dinner services.
1. Bailey Tichenor, No Ordinary Lustre: Daisy Makeig-Jones's China": https://artistoric.com/no-ordinary-lustre/#
