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14-667: Carolean can refer to: Restoration style , a decorative style popular in England from 1660 to the 1680s Caroleans , soldiers of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII Carolean Express , train service in the United Kingdom See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Carolean All pages with titles containing Carolean Carolan (surname) Carole Ann Topics referred to by

28-453: A design with brushes or other implements, and slip trailing , where the slip, usually rather thick, is dripped, piped or trailed onto the body, typically from some device like the piping bag used to decorate cakes. The French term for slip is barbotine , and this term may be used for both techniques, but usually from different periods. Often only pottery where the slip creates patterns or images will be described as slipware, as opposed to

42-490: A layer of coloured slip to reveal a different colour or the base body underneath. Several layers of slip and/or sgraffito can be done while the pot is still in an unfired state. One colour of slip can be fired, before a second is applied, and prior to the scratching or incising decoration. This is particularly useful if the base body is not of the desired colour or texture. Chinese pottery also used techniques where patterns, images or calligraphy were created as part-dried slip

56-849: Is an ancient technique in Chinese pottery also, used to cover whole vessels over 4,000 years ago. Many prehistoric and historic cultures used slip as the primary decorating material on their ware, especially in early periods. These include most prehistoric cultures of the Middle East and much later Islamic pottery , cultures in many areas of Africa , most pottery-making cultures in the Americas, early Japanese (and later Onta ware ) and much Korean pottery. Much Mycenean ware, Ancient Greek pottery and Ancient Roman pottery used slip, as did pre-industrialized potters in many areas of Europe, including Great Britain , most notably Thomas Toft in

70-582: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Restoration style The return of the king and his court from exile on the Continent led to the replacement of the Puritan severity of the Cromwellian style with a taste for magnificence and opulence, and to the introduction of Dutch and French artistic influences. These are evident in furniture in

84-406: Is placed onto the leather-hard (semi-hardened) clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing. Slip is an aqueous suspension of a clay body, which is a mixture of clays and other minerals such as quartz , feldspar and mica . The slip placed onto a wet or leather-hard clay body surface by a variety of techniques including dipping, painting, piping or splashing. Slipware

98-438: Is the pottery on which slip has been applied either for glazing or decoration. Slip is liquified clay or clay slurry, with no fixed ratio of water and clay, which is used either for joining pottery pieces together by slip casting with mould , glazing or decorating the pottery by painting or dipping the pottery with slip. Principal techniques include slip painting , where the slip is treated like paint and used to create

112-622: The English East India Company resulted in increased imports of exotic commodities from China and Japan , including tea , porcelain and lacquer , and chintzes from India . This led to a craze for chinoiserie , reflected in the development of imitation lacquer (Japanning), blue and white decoration on ceramics , flat-chased scenes of Chinese-style figures and landscapes on silver, and new forms of silver such as teapots , as well as colourful Indian-style crewelwork bed-hangings and curtains . Other developments in

126-627: The Staffordshire Potteries . Later potters mostly combined or replaced the use of slip with ceramic glazes and pigments offering a tougher finish and a wider range of colours. But a variety of slipware techniques were revived by various studio pottery movements from the 19th century on. In England Bernard Leach and in America Mary Louise McLaughlin were among the leaders of these revivals. A coating of white or coloured slip (sometimes called by

140-551: The French term engobe in American English ) can be applied to the whole body of the article, or just one part, such as outside or inside of a cup or jug, to improve its appearance, to give a smoother surface to a rough body, mask an inferior colour or for decorative effect. Slip can also be applied by painting techniques, in isolation or in several layers and colours. Sgraffito (or "sgraffiato") involves scratching through

154-541: The Restoration period were the emergence of the English glass industry, following the invention of lead glass by George Ravenscroft around 1676, and the manufacture of slipware by Thomas Toft . After the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689, Restoration style was superseded by William and Mary style . Slipware Slipware is pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip

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168-554: The many types where a plain slip is applied to the whole body, for example most fine wares in Ancient Roman pottery , such as African red slip ware (note: "slip ware" not "slipware"). Decorative slips may be a different colour than the underlying clay body or offer other decorative qualities. Selectively applying layers of colored slips can create the effect of a painted ceramic, such as in the black-figure or red-figure pottery styles of Ancient Greek pottery . Slip decoration

182-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Carolean . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolean&oldid=1153061208 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

196-518: The use of floral marquetry , walnut instead of oak , twisted turned supports and legs, exotic veneers , cane seats and backs on chairs, sumptuous tapestry and velvet upholstery , and ornate carved and gilded scrolling bases for cabinets. Restoration silver is characterized by embossed motifs for tulips and naturalistic fruit and leaves. New types of furniture introduced in this period include cabinets on stands, chests of drawers , armchairs and wing chairs , and daybeds . The growing power of

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