Common Ceramics
Dublin Core
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Common Ceramics
Collection Items
Eighteenth Century Hand-Built Earthenware
Shell-tempered pottery with incised decoration, recovered from the vicinity of the Spanish Fort site (16OR19)
Polychrome Hand-Painted Pearlware
English polychrome hand-painted cup and saucers, recovered during excavations conducted by Earth Search, Inc., on The National World War II Museum expansion site.
Polychrome Hand-Painted Whiteware Cup
Polychrome hand-painted whiteware cup, distinguishable from pearlware examples by palette of reds, light greens, and blacks. Recovered from privy excavated at 936 St. Peter Street.
Blue Hand-Painted Faience
Blue hand-painted faience brune plate rim from the Spanish Fort area, manufactured in France in the 18th century.
White Slipped and Green Glazed Earthenware
White-slipped and green-glazed buff earthenware platter or milk bowl, manufactured in France in the 18th century, recovered from the Spanish Fort area.
White-Bodied Refined Earthenwares
The age of many English refined white-firing earthenwares can be distinguished in part by subtle differences in clay and glaze composition. The column on the left is creamware (ca. 1760s-1820s), the middle column is pearlware (ca. 1780s to 1830s),…
Blue Hand-Painted Pearlware
Blue hand-painted pearlware cup/bowl rims in the "China glaze" style, manufactured in England.
Stoneware "Ginger Beer" Bottle
Bristol-glazed stoneware bottle fragments, with "GRAY PORTOBELLO" mark, from the W. A. Gray Pottery of Portobello, Scotland.
Marbled and Mocha Decorated Pearlware Bowl
English pearlware bowl with unusual combination of marbled and mocha decoration.