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scratch blue|skrætʃ bluː|
[f. scratch v. + blue n.]
Used attrib. and absol. to designate a decoration of incisions filled with blue pigment found on eighteenth-century stoneware or stoneware so decorated. Cf. scratched blue.
1924Rackham & Read Eng. Pottery vi. 88 In the Liverpool museum there is a mug of ‘scratch blue’. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 28/1 A salt-glazed mug with ‘scratch blue’ decoration is inscribed with..the date 1742. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 251/1 ‘Scratch blue’ ware, a class of white salt-glazed stoneware decorated with..ornaments and inscriptions incised upon the wares in the unfired ‘green state’. 1969G. Wills Eng. Pott. & Porc. 88 The incised wording was emphasised by dusting it, before firing and glazing, with powdered cobalt-blue; a type of decoration..known as ‘scratch blue’. 1971L. A. Boger Dict. World Pott. & Porc. 308/2 It is thought that this scratch blue ware may also have been made at Liverpool and in other parts of England. |