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Feather-edge creamware plate or dish.

Refined Earthenware | Object #: 1723124

This fragment of cream colored ceramic is a portion of a plate or platter decorated with a feather edged pattern along the rim. Archaeologists refer to this kind of ceramic as creamware and associate it with that produced by English potter Josiah Wedgewood beginning in 1762. Wedgewood successfu...

Green-glaze cream colored refined earthenware vessel, unid.

Refined Earthenware | Object #: 1723155

These fragments of thinly potted cream colored ceramic are too small to reliably identify as a particular form. One of the primary ceramics advancements of the mid-eighteenth century was the development of thinly potted cream colored ceramics. In the early 1740s, the same clays used for white s...

Pearlware vessel with blue decoration.

Refined Earthenware | Object #: 1723194

Tiny sherd of blue decorated pearlware. Burned.

Green-painted molded edge pearlware tableware.

Refined Earthenware | Object #: 1723213

Small sherd of what is likely green shell-edge. Missing glaze obstructs rim stylistic element.

Handpainted green pearlware vessel.

Refined Earthenware | Object #: 1723553

Small sherd of pearlware with handpainted green decoration.

Westerwald/Rhenish stoneware chamberpot.

Stoneware | Object #: 1723807

This is a fragment of a stoneware chamberpot produced in the Westerwald region of Germany. German stonewares played an important part of the English and colonial ceramic market of the eighteenth century. These vessels were available in a variety of forms but most commonly as jugs, mugs and cham...

Westerwald/Rhenish 2-quart "GR" stoneware jug.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725014

This is a fragment of a stoneware jug produced in the Westerwald region of Germany. German stonewares played an important part of the English and colonial ceramic market of the eighteenth century. These vessels were available in a variety of forms but most commonly as jugs, mugs and chamberpots...

Westerwald/Rhenish stoneware tableware.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725091

This is a fragment of a stoneware tableware produced in the Westerwald region of Germany. German stonewares played an important part of the English and colonial ceramic market of the eighteenth century. These vessels were available in a variety of forms but most commonly as jugs, mugs and chamb...

American gray stoneware hollow vessel.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725127

Scratch blue, White Salt Glaze stoneware hollow vessel.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725145

Measurements taken from largest mended portion.

Debased scratch blue, white salt glaze stoneware hollow vessel.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725160

Grayish blue exterior, white interior.

White salt glaze stoneware teabowl.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725208

Almost complete teabowl.

White salt glaze stoneware mug.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725418

This fragment of white salt glazed stoneware is the base of a wheel thrown mug/can. Just visible on this fragment is the terminal location where the lower portion of the handle attached to the body. This white bodied ceramic was produced by combining naturally white clays with ground and calcin...

White salt glaze stoneware teabowl.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725435

This is a fragment of a white salt glazed stoneware teabowl. This white bodied ceramic was produced by combining naturally white clays with ground and calcined flint. Undecorated teaware forms such as this item were generally popular between the first and last quarter of the eighteenth century,...

White salt glaze stoneware teabowl.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725573

This is a fragment of a white salt glazed stoneware teabowl. This white bodied ceramic was produced by combining naturally white clays with ground and calcined flint. Undecorated teaware forms such as this item were generally popular between the first and last quarter of the eighteenth century,...

White salt glaze stoneware vessel.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725579

Thin-walled vessel with very flared rim and little curvature. Likely from vessel with irregular rim form.

White salt glaze stoneware saucer.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725604

This is a fragment of a white salt glazed stoneware saucer. This white bodied ceramic was produced by combining naturally white clays with ground and calcined flint. Undecorated teaware forms such as this item were generally popular between the first and last quarter of the eighteenth century, ...

White salt glaze stoneware hollow vessel with footring.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725616

Possible bowl.

White salt glaze stoneware hollow vessel with footring.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725628

Possible bowl or chamberpot.

White salt glaze stoneware dot, diaper, and basket molded plate.

Stoneware | Object #: 1725686

This slightly burned fragment of white salt glazed stoneware is a portion of a plate rim decorated by press molding. This white bodied ceramic was produced by combining naturally white clays with ground and calcined flint. In the process of press molding, clay sheets were pressed into block mol...