Description:Pottery factory interior showing a woman aerographing glaze onto a ewer.
She is using a pneumatic airbrush.
Aerography was the mechanical spraying of glaze onto pots.
It also helped enormously in two aspects of decorating:
Ground laying — the application of sold areas of flat colour which was a skilled and time consuming art.
Shaded effects - previously either brushed or blown onto the ware with a mouth blown diffuser.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.