Editing English delftware (section)

==Later wares==
[[File:Bowl, Lambeth Pottery, c. 1760, tin-glazed earthenware - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - DSC07657.JPG|thumb|[[Chinoiserie]] bowl, Lambeth Pottery, c. 1760]]   
Towards the end of the 17th changing taste led to the replacement of apothecary pots, tiles and large dishes by polite tablewares, delicate ornaments, [[punch (drink)|punch bowls]], teapots, cocoa pots and coffee-pots.  The decoration became lighter and more informal.  Changing taste was also reflected in [[chinoiserie]] decoration and greater use of a [[polychrome]] palette.

In Bristol and Lambeth from the mid-18th century there was much use of a technique imported from Italy, ''bianco sopra bianco'' (white-on-white).  The object was covered in a tin-glaze tinted with a small amount of colouring oxide, with decoration over it in white tin-glaze.

The development of [[creamware]], a very white and tough earthenware, by [[Wedgwood]] and other North Staffordshire potters spelled the end of English delftware.  Decoration could be applied to the [[Bisque (pottery)|bisque]] ware from [[Transfer printing|printed transfers]], white pottery could be produced with a clear [[lead]]-glaze, and the result was pottery lighter and more durable than tin-glazed ware.  The north Staffordshire potteries also introduced new wares and industrial techniques that disadvantaged the delftware makers,<ref>Poole, 2, 54, 74-88</ref> and by the 19th century tin-glazed earthenware almost died out until its revival in the form of [[art pottery]] a hundred years later.