Spongeware Project
By: Grace
This ceramic was usually made in between the 1840s to the 1870s with the use of the technique called sponging. As shown in this bowl, the technique of sponging was used with a sponge and usually one or with several colours called Tortoiseshell ware. Blue was the most common of all the colours that would be used that included yellow, red and green. This technique was rarely combined with other ones and was very popular on teaware and bowls. Multi-coloured sponging was especially common before the 1850s, but in the 19th century, it was one of the most inexpensive of the white wares. Poorer folks mostly used the sponged ware. The sponging is commonly known as "Portneuf" in Canada, Spatterware in the United States and spongeware in Great Britain.