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Vincent & Mary Price:10 Italian Copper Lusterware Bowls
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As noted authors of the famous cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes , Vincent and Mary Price were famed chefs and collectors of china. They had so many sets of china that their daughter (who detested her job of washing dishes!) liked to imagine that they could eat off of a different plate every night for five years and never have to wash a dish! This luxurious set of Italian coppered lusterware was one of Mary's pride and joys. It is featured in the cookbook in a wonderful photograph in their living room. Mary and Vincent loved anything copper, so this was the best of both worlds--china and copper!! We will be offering this gorgeous set on eBay in the coming months. are 10 ice cream bowls, measuring 5 1/2" in diameter and 3 1/4" in height. They are stamped on the bottom: Made in Italy with the initials P.V. in a circle and are all numbered. We are unable to find any information regarding this stamp. If anyone has information, we would be very grateful to hear from you and will add that information to our description. What we have found is that a good deal of lusterware bears no marks, but evenwhen it does, identification of 19th century ceramics is far fromstraightforward. A jug whose shape is traditionally Staffordshire might in fact have been made in Sunderland. Almost identical pieces can be stamped with different names, possibly meaning that a freelance decorator worked for two different factories. * Please see more information on Roman lusterware below* As a vintage set, two have tiny rim chips and many have smudges or fingerprints that can be wiped off. The luster is very high on most, but has dulled in some areas. History of Italian Lusterware: The Romans admired highly polished red-gloss earthenware--possibly in reaction against Greek and Hellenistic black pottery. The red-gloss technique developed in the eastern Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic period (323-31 bc). This ware was made by dipping the pot in a suspension of fine particles of high-silica clay - which gave a higher gloss when polished - and firing it in an oxidizing kiln. Decoration was in raised designs: The pots were formed in clay molds that had been impressed along the edges with roulettes in repeat motifs, stamped with other designs and figures, and given further details that were hand-carved in the mold--hence the term terra sigillata ("stamped earth") for this ware. (The term is often also applied by extension to the clay suspension in which the pots were dipped.) Many designs and shapes were inspired by metalwork and cut glass. Arretium (modern Arezzo) was the center for red-gloss ware with relief decoration, and the best of this pottery, from the 1st centuries bc and ad , is thus called Arretine ware. Several areas of the Roman Empire made Arretine ware, but as manufacture moved farther from the capital, the quality of the red-gloss ware declined. The best was from southern France from the 1st century ad. Roman potters also made lead glazes, a procedure that enabled them to add metal oxides for color. Lead-glazed earthenware became the major pottery of medieval Europe. AND Though t had been a ceramics tradition in Italy for centuries BC, as evidenced by the redware of the early Romans, the Eutruscian "bucchero" and the terra cotta figurative sculptures, majolica in Italy, didn't really appear until the 15th century. Before that, very simple decorated, tin-glazed ware was produced in Sicily and parts of Italy, but was not known as majolica. It was actually the early years of the Italian Renaissance in the Tuscany region that realized the advent of classical Italian majolica. It is interesting to note that, even though we refer to majolica as any tin-glazed decorated ceramic, in Italy it was not until the 18th century that this broader definition was used. Until that time majolica only referred to the lustreware. Renaissance ceramics production in Italy was influenced by trade routes, availability of local materials (clays, metal oxides and fuel for firing), and, v... 
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