page_title: Sprigging (pottery)
hierarchical_section_title: Sprigging (pottery)
caption_attribution_description: Britain Loves Wikipedia at the Victoria and Albert Museum Teapots English: English teapot (left) 1690-98 David Elers and John Philip Elers Red stoneware, slip-cast with applied sprig-moulded decoration Made at the Elers' factory, Bradwell Wood, Staffordshire (active 1690-98) Impressed with four imitation Chinese characters This teapot appears to be unique, although another example of the body shape is known, with a normal loop handle at the back. The overhead 'bucket' handle was common on Chinese porcelain or enamel teapots from Canton (Guangzhou province), but is not known on the red stonewares from Yixing (Jiangsu province). Here it may have been copied by the Elers brothers from a European engraving of Chinese teawares rather than from an actual Chinese teapot. Given by W.W. Winkworth https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77866/teapot/ Chinese teapot (right) With an inscription dating it to 1627 Chinese red stoneware with European silver-gilt mounts Made by the potter Hui Mengchen at Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China On the base is incised an inscription in Chinese characters translating as 'In 1627 Mengchen made this for the Hall of Friendship' (a room in the home of the client who ordered the teapot). The teapot was made for a Chinese client and has specifically Chinese symbolism and writing. However, it ended up in Europe, where it was embellished with silver-gilt mounts. By contrast, many teapots that reached Europe were designed with more simple shapes, and without decoration with special symbolic meaning. The prunus design was popular on both imported and home-produced wares. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O22866/teapot/ Collection ID: C.17-1932 and C.16&amp;A-1968 This photo was taken as part of Britain Loves Wikipedia in February 2010 by David Jackson.
context_page_description: Sprigging or sprigged decoration is a technique for decorating pottery with low relief shapes made separately from the main body and applied to it before firing. Usually thin press moulded shapes are applied to greenware or bisque. The resulting pottery is termed sprigged ware, and the added piece is a "sprig". The technique may also be described by terms such as "applied relief decoration", especially in non-European pottery.
  The alternative way to achieve similar effects without sprigging is to mould the whole body, which is also common. Pâte-sur-pâte is a very labour-intensive, and so expensive, method of producing similar, but more refined, effects in contrasting colors, invented in China and then in France in the mid-19th century.
context_section_description: Sprigging or sprigged decoration is a technique for decorating pottery with low relief shapes made separately from the main body and applied to it before firing.  Usually thin press moulded shapes are applied to greenware or bisque. The resulting pottery is termed sprigged ware,  and the added piece is a "sprig".  The technique may also be described by terms such as "applied relief decoration", especially in non-European pottery.
  The alternative way to achieve similar effects without sprigging is to mould the whole body, which is also common.  Pâte-sur-pâte is a very labour-intensive, and so expensive, method of producing similar, but more refined, effects in contrasting colors, invented in China and then in France in the mid-19th century.
caption: Two teapots with sprigged decoration: on the right a Chinese Yixing teapot dated 1627, on the left an English imitation of the 1690s by the Elers brothers, who introduced sprigging to modern English pottery
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