The first method, with the design left in white, was produced in handsome and highly artistic styles, and there is a pattern known as the “Resist” pattern which is much sought after.
From Mr. W. G. Honey’s collection we have selected a very good example of this silver lustre with design in white. This is of the “Resist” pattern, its artistic excellence speaks for itself.
GOLD LUSTRE JUG
(Raised coloured flowers.)
From the Collection of Mr. W. G. Honey.
With regard to gold or purple lustre, the middle dish in the group in our illustration is gold lustre ware, and is probably of Swansea manufacture. Wedgwood produced a gold lustre of remarkable brilliancy. The dish above alluded to is decorated with stags and staghounds, but in some of the gold undecorated examples, such as Wedgwood’s, covered with a mottled ruby-gold lustre, the effect was due entirely to the shape and to the lustre.
The reason that this variety is called gold or purple lustre is that in the lights it shines like gold, and the rest of the pattern in those pieces decorated with flowers and floral pattern, glows with a rich purple.
This purple lustre shows more signs of the hand of time than any of the other lustres, and it is nearly always found to be partially worn off. We give an interesting example of a jug with gold lustre ground and raised coloured flowers from Mr. W. G. Honey’s collection.
Note.—Lustre ware is more fully treated in a chapter in the companion volume, “Chats on English Earthenware.”