Description:
Ointment pots were usually made of tin-glazed earthenware or delft, but white stoneware examples have also been found at many post-1750 American archaeological sites. These small containers held a variety of salves and pomades used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes: their rolled rims allowed the contents to be protected by thin bladders or papers held in place with string. English small white salt-glazed stoneware ointment pot with a curved rim, with a label on the base, "Excavated in London" and "#29.7.29." 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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