Did Benjamin Franklin invent transferware?

• Autores: Wendy W. Erich
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1288, 2010, págs. 464-469
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer speculates on whether Benjamin Franklin was the inventor of transfer-printed chinaware. On November 3, 1773, Franklin wrote a letter to Peter Perez Burdett, a young engraver then based in Liverpool, England, to thank him for sending his recently produced specimen of transfer-printed chinaware. The letter includes the astonishing claim that Franklin himself had pursued his idea for transferring pictures to pottery more than 20 years before, only to be laughed at by the English pottery trade. Credit for its invention was ultimately bestowed on John Brooks as the creator and on John Sadler, of Sadler & Green, Liverpool, as the developer of the transfer-printed style that revolutionized the surface decoration of ceramics for the following 200 years. However, if Sadler's claims and dates regarding this invention were to be juxtaposed with Franklin's recollection of events, a possible timeline could be established for the fruition of the idea to transfer-print on ceramics.