Notes:
Amongst the many European craftspeople who migrated to England upon the accession of Mary and William of Orange were the Dutch Elers brothers, John and David. Silversmiths by trade they turned to pottery, and set up in Staffordshire, producing a variation of the redware style which had been developed in the Netherlands in the late seventeenth century. Though redware had initially developed in imitation of imported Chinese Yixing teapots, English manufactories, while retaining stylistic references to China (see the pseudo Chinese-seal on this example), developed their own innovative techniques and distinctive styles.
See Rackham, Bernard, ‘Early Staffordshire Pottery’, London: Faber and Faber, 1951.
