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Chamber pot
1720-1740
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Probably Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
1958.1081
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1958.1081
Object Name
Chamber pot
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Probably Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1720-1740
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Pulled
- Trailed
Dimensions (inches)
4.882 (H) x 8.189 (L) x 7.165 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
12.4 (H) x 20.8 (L) x 18.2 (Diam)
Measurement Notes
Length includes handle
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Barker, David & Crompton, Steve. Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery.
• Similar form and decoration porringer with dots under, rather than on rim: p. 44, smaller than Winterthur piece. North Staffordshire, c. 1720-30.Article: Orr, David. 2003 Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia: A Remarkable Slipware Assemblage. Ceramics in America. 252-55.
• Dotware chamberpot with more flaring rim, excavated in Philadelphia: pp. 252-3, fig. 3 (right), from well on Market St., sealed around 1760.Book: Miller, J. Jefferson & Stone, Lyle M. 1970 Eighteenth-Century Ceramics from Fort Michilimackinac: A Study in Archaeology.
• Similarly decorated cup and mug fragments excavated at Fort Michilimackinac site, Michigan: p. 62, figs. 33a&b.Manuscript: Findlen, Suzanne Rae. "Taste and Choice in Early Portsmouth New Hampshire as Seen Through Ceramic Archaeological Evidence, 1700-1800" (MA thesis).
• Dotless chamberpot of generally similar form excavated Strawbery Banke, NH: p. 85, no. 68 (A-1050a DS4.154)