Description:
English creamware barrel-shaped mustard pot with a cover and the body tapering at the rim and foot. The domed lid has an acorn finial over bands of concentric ribs; the outer edge of the lid has a beaded border. The pot has a double entwined strap handle with foliate terminals; engine-turned horizontal ribs to look like barrel straps; and a flat base. Ceramic specialist Jonathan Rickard suggested that HD 2006.33.73 may be a "marmalet” or marmalade pot, a form which is listed in the 1783-87 sales ledgers of the John Wood Pottery, Brownfields. Also listed in the ledgers are “mustards with holes” from which one could conjecture that all mustard pots did not have holes at that time. Ceramics scholar Jonathan Rickard suggested that Historic Deerfield acc. no. 2006.33.73 may be a "marmalet” or marmalade pot, a form which is listed in the 1783-87 sales ledgers of the John Wood Pottery, Brownfields. Also listed in the ledgers are “mustards with holes” from which one could conjecture that all mustard pots did not have holes at that time. See Robin Gurnett, “The Forgotten Woods of Brownhills, Part 1: John Wood, 1746-1797,” Northern Ceramic Society Journal 22 (2006): 38-40. Condition: chip to lid
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