Description:
This is an early example of slip decorated earthenwares or dipt wares decorated with marbled and combed slips. These early slip marbled wares exhibit a limited range of colors including white , brown, rust, caramel and sometimes blue and appear with cream or pearl glazes. The decoration was created by dragging a toothed tool through the wet marbling in a constant direction. Marbled slip decorated fragments are found at the Greatbatch site in Fenton, Staffordshire, England, c. 1775-1782 context (this is not a Greatbatch example). The demand for variegated slip wares died out at the turn of the 18th century. Small squat pot with swelled sides and attached loop handle, domed cover with pointed round finial, the surface is covered with brown, cream, and coffee-colored slips which are marbled and combed, the top of the cover, upper edge of the mustard pot body and the lower edge of the body are ribbed and painted in green glaze. Jonathan Rickard suggested that this pot 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
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