Blue and White Ceramics

Greetings from the PurplePatty.com Community! Blue and White ceramics go back to China where the pieces were painted by hand, which created an expensive finished product that only the wealthy could afford. As we approached the late 18th century there was an increase of demand for teapots and their accessories due to the reduction of the tea tax in 1784. The demand was greater than the factories could keep up with, so was born the transfer-printed tableware.

Josiah Spode was the first craftsman that perfected the use of the transfer process. Although a range of colors were produced, it was the blue and white that remained as the most sought after color design. Some of the most famous patterns were Willow Pattern and Spode's Italian and they are still in production today.

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