Pratt ware and other painted ware

Pratt ware, named after the Staffordshire potter who invented the technique in the late 18th century, is a generic term for pottery with a limited palette of earth colours – cobalt blue, dark green, yellow ochre and manganese brown – applied under a pearlware glaze.  The North East potters, who were copiers rather than innovators, used this technique into the 1830s, by which time it would have appeared quite old fashioned.   

Below are some North Hylton sherds with Pratt decoration and an almost identical tea bowl saucer with a Dixon Austin impressed mark (unfortunately I don't have a photo of the mark).

Below another similar tea bowl and sherd.  Below right, an unrelated sherd in Pratt colours.

The two sherds below seem a particularly close fit with the tea bowl (centre). 

Below, a teapot, which, without Norman's research, we would never have recognised as North Hylton.  Not only does it share painted similarities to the items above, the lid is a perfect match for an unglazed sherd found at the North Hylton site.  Both lids fit the teapot, as shown in the last image.

Below two cobalt blue decorated sherds and a very similar tea bowl.  The sherds come from a larger item.

Below, three other hand-painted sherds from the North Hylton site.