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Posted by Pete Christmas on October 11, 2009, 6:23 am, in reply to "Re: Clobbering"
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Clobbering originally refered, I believe, to Chinese blue & white wares which had enamel colours added in an effort to make them more marketable. It therefore became a slightly derogative term, as in 'spoiled'.
Unfortunately it has also subsequently come to be applied by some authors as a description to some 1820s pearlware which were clearly designed from origin to be enamelled. I have even heard auctioneers erroneously insisting that these wares must have been enamelled at a later date, as with the earlier Chinese examples, rather than at manufacture.
Clobbering has therefore become a slightly ambiguous term that means different things to different people. In its broadest sense it has come to mean any enamelling over blue & white, but my definition would restrict it to colouring of wares which were NOT originally designed to be enamelled.
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