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Saucer
1790-1810
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire or Yorkshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (mochaware)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
2000.0010.005
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Frances Smyth-Ravenel Estate
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Object Number
2000.0010.005
Object Name
Saucer
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire or Yorkshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1790-1810
Materials
- Earthenware (mochaware)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Slip decorated
- Trailed
Dimensions (inches)
1.25 (H) x 6.25 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
3.175 (H) x 15.875 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Carpentier, Donald & Rickard, Jonathan. 2001 "Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization". Ceramics in America. (2001): 115-134.
• Application of mocha decoration: pp. 124-5, figs. 15-19, illustrating process.Book: Rickard, Jonathan. 2006 Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939.
• For information on mocha decoration, see chap. 4, pp.46-59.Book: Rickard, Jonathan. 2006 Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939.
• Generally similar pearlware saucer: : p. 52, British, c. 1820.Book: Rickard, Jonathan. 2006 Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939.
• Mochaware biscuit-fired teacup excavated at James and Ralph Clews Cobridge Works (1818-34), Staffordshire.Book: Adams, Brian & Thomas, Anthony. 1996 A Potwork in Devonshire: The History & Products of the Bovey Tracey Potteries 1750-1836.
• Mochaware wasters from Indeo Pottery, Bovey Tracey, Devon: p. 54, glazed and biscuit mocha ware wasters, c.1820-36Manuscript: Findlen, Suzanne Rae. "Taste and Choice in Early Portsmouth New Hampshire as Seen Through Ceramic Archaeological Evidence, 1700-1800" (MA thesis).
• Mochaware pitcher with similar deep orange ground excavated Hart-Shortridge House Cellar, Strawbery Banke, NH: p. 110, no. 218 (A-0059 DS2.8B.F1), Late 18th C. to c. 1840 context.