Description:
English slipware chamber pot fragment with yellow with brown dots or brown with yellow dots, which was found in Dr. Thomas Williams house privy pit at the rear of the house (Deerfield, lot No. 9) during an archeological dig in 1976, which was filled with American redwares, English slipwares, stonewares, delftwares, German stonewares, and Chinese export porcelains. Dr. Williams (1718-1775) settled in Deerfield in 1739, where he became its second physician and married Anna Childs (1723-1746), daughter of Timothy Childs, in 1744, the year he bought the house from Daniel Belding. According to Leslie Grigsby in her "English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg": "The use of dots, whether large or small, dark-on-light, or light-on-dark, was popular in the Midlands throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." A wide range of these wares were sold throughout Britain and to the colonies, and have also been found at excavations in Williamsburg. See a similar complete example in HD collection, HD 1998.6.1, which has a history of ownership in the Spenser-Bishop family of Guilford, Connecticut. A similar chamber pot was excavated in Portsmouth, NH, and is in the collection of the Strawbery Banke Museum.
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