Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware greyish-white chamber pot with a globular body, flared rim, and strap handle with a pinched terminal. The pot was discovered by the site manager while constructing a new shopping mall complex in the town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 1986, in what appeared to be an old cesspit along with old port and wine bottles. The body is decorated with a double set of incised lines, around the top and just above the flat base. Fragments of a similar chamber pot are on view in the Archaeological Exhibition at Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Although Staffordshire white stoneware had been perfected by about 1720, its possibilities for mass-production were not fully exploited until the 1740s. Then the techniques of press-moulding, slip-casting and enamelling were developed, and the drabness of the greyish stoneware surface was successfully relieved by the addition of all-over decoration.

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