Astbury-Whieldon Ware
English pottery, principally
earthenware, with applied decoration, produced from about 1730 to 1745 by
two Stoke-on-Trent potters, John Astbury
and Thomas Whieldon.
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Instead of the more common stamped relief decoration, the
ornament was achieved by applying pre-molded relief motifs to the surface of
the pottery object and connecting them by curled stems formed of threads of
thinly rolled clay. The process was known as sprigging.
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