Description:
English creamware caster or pepper pot, often used for sugar and other dry condiments at table, covered with slip decoration, also known as mocha, banded, or dipped/dipt ware. These ceramics were very common and cheap forms used in kitchens and taverns all over America in the late 18th and early 19th century. This type of dendritic decoration was achieved by placing a drop of mocha tea (stale urine, tobacco spit) on the slip surface. The tree-like patterns appear immediately. The shaker has a domed, cream-colored top with holes and molded rim, over a globular body supported on a flared, flat foot. The body is decorated with two dark bands with a mustard colored ground between; over a dark brown band over a dark mustard-colored body with four dark brown dentrite shapes; over two small dark brown bands over a cream-colored foot. The piece was in the PVMA collection, Main Hall, Case E, #79 (donor not listed).
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+69.1379 |
