Pierced (Wedgwood handbook)

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Pierced.

Pierced. Punctured with holes in various patterns. This style of decoration was derived from examples in oriental porcelain, and the first European imitations were made apparently at Dresden. Piercii^ was applied by Wedgwood chiefly to the edges of cream-ware dessert plates, compotiers, fruit dishes and baskets, as also as a central encircling orna- ment. He had the exquisite taste to round the angles or edges of his pierced patterns, and thus they stood out in marked contradistinction to imitations made at Leeds and elsewhere. This ware was necessarily fragile, and hence little of it has reached our day ; but in the old invoices no patterns are more commonly mentioned than ^' pierced and gilt." Examples, if discovered, are worthy of the connoisseur's greatest care.