White salt-glazed stoneware Aesop's fable-molded cup (coffee or chocolate).
Stoneware | Object #: 1696145
Two scenes represented: "The Fox and the Stork" and "The Fox and the Eagle".
Two scenes represented: "The Fox and the Stork" and "The Fox and the Eagle".
Flared at base; two bands of rustication. Capacity estimated at 2.87 pints or almost a quart (using imperial measure).
Base broken, so no diameter taken.
Capacity estimated at 0.69 pints or about 1/2 a pint (using imperial measure).
Capacity estimated at 1.49 pints or about 1 1/2 pints (using imperial measure).
Measurements except weight of rim sherd.
This fragment is a ceramic archaeologists refer to as North Midlands/Staffordshire type slipware. The word “type” is used here to denote the fact that coarse, slip decorated wares were actually produced in several regions of England throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century. One feature that…
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 salt glazed…
Tiny sherd of blue decorated pearlware. Burned.
Small sherd of what is likely green shell-edge. Missing glaze obstructs rim stylistic element.