Description:
English slipware salt kit with a circular, ridged knob top and circular side opening with a lip, which was used to store salt within the house, keeping it dry and clean.The salt kit takes the form of a jar, sealed at the top but with a circular hole in the shoulder. They seem to date from the mid-18th century and later, and are consequently not represented among the earlier Staffordshire-made slipwares. The body is covered with a dark brown glaze and slip-trailed white/yellow decoration, and the knob is surrounded by large dots. The side opening has simple, stylized foliate linear patterns on either side and around its top lip, and has an abstract foliate pattern below. The opposite side has two large, matching geometric patterns, with a large central solid circle surrounded by dots, a circle, and then solid and dotted diamound shapes. The designs are separated by a matching linear foliate pattern. According to Andrew McGarva, Country Pottery: The Traditional Earthenware of Britain, many salt kits were confined to manufacture in the north of England and Scotland.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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