Ironstone/white granite vessel with maker's mark.
Refined Earthenware | Object #: 1693331
Base mark: "_ _ _ STONE CHIN... / T.DAVIS". Pottery called Prospect Hill Pottery Company, est. 1880, Trenton, NJ (Kovels 1953:156).
Base mark: "_ _ _ STONE CHIN... / T.DAVIS". Pottery called Prospect Hill Pottery Company, est. 1880, Trenton, NJ (Kovels 1953:156).
Length and width of largest sherd.
Possible tankard.
Lead glaze interior. Measurements taken from largest sherd.
This is a sherd of an unidentified utilitarian vessel, made of a coarse earthenware which archaeologists refer to as Staffordshire mottled or manganese mottled. The paste of this ceramic type is often tan or buff with few, if any, inclusions. In utilitarian vessels, however, the ceramic paste can be…
Likely a tableware or teaware. Tin glaze is fairly white.
Nottingham stoneware base to table or teaware. White slip visible between salt glaze and body.