Topic: CREAMWARE - any info welcome.

[gemmacler]

Hello
Hoping there is someone out there who knows about creamware. I have had this piece for quite a while, I think it is English creamware. It is about 8 inches long and 7 high, a flared rectangular shape. It has a moulded design of a tree at the base with fruit on the tree. It is very light in weight, with a very creamy colour and glossy glaze. Fiant crazing on it. Approx date about 1800. No marks. The question is : what was it for ? I can't find a similar shape. I thought of a fruit stand, an ice pail, but no luck so far. All info very welcome.
Thanks.

[Anne]

I think it'd be a jardiniere, i.e. a pot for holding a plant.

[Tigerchips]

A 'reticulated' jardiniere?

I love saying that word! 

[gemmacler]

Thanks for your ideas. I think that could be right. I came on the expression bough pot which may or may not be the same thing. The shape is sarcophagus I believe - try combining that with reticulated !!!! This shape was all the rage in the Regency period and I believe this pot was made then. I am very keen on it - so plain, and yet so fancy. The pierced border was cut by hand I think, not with a punch. The glaze pools slightly at the base and is yellow, so it might be Leeds or Yorkshire.
Thanks again.

[Anne]

A pierced jardiniere TC   Reticulated actually means in a string bag - from reticule, which was a sort of forerunner of our modern handbag. In plants you find reticulated irises where the bulb is encased in a fine net-like outer skin. There, I bet you didn't know that. 

[Tigerchips]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think a bough pot has a lid with holes in it so that it can hold the flowers.

[Anne]

You could well be right TC, it's not something I'm familiar with. This one doesn't have a lid though does it? I have seen jardinieres with pierced rims/top parts like this.