Creamware is a cream-coloured refined earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body, known in France as
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Creamware is made from white clays from Dorset and Devon combined with an amount of calcined flint. This body is the same as that used for salt-glazed stoneware, but it is fired to a lower temperature (around 800 °C as oppose… See more

Creamware was first produced some time before 1740. Originally lead powder or galena, mixed with a certain amount of ground calcined flint, was dusted on the ware, which was then given its one and only firing. … See more

One important ware of note however is pearlware, of which there was an increase around 1779. Pearlware is distinct from creamware in having a blue-tinged glaze produced by the use of cobalt and a body somewhat … See more

During the partnership between Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgwood from 1754 to 1759, moulded creamware in a variety of forms was developed, especially in collaboration with the talented block-cutter William Gre… See more

Creamware during the 18th century was decorated in a variety of ways:
The early process of using lead-powder produced a brilliant, transparent glaze of a rich cream colour. Small stamped motifs similar to th… See more