Description:
English pearlware "London-shape" waste bowl covered with slip decoration, also known as mocha, banded, or dipped ware. The bowl was wheel-thrown and then turned on a lathe and has an applied, shaped and molded foot. The rim has cylindrical incised bands, or dicing, covered with cobalt blue oxide slip; over a wide tan band with four dark-brown dendritic (or tree-like) patterns around the middle of the band, over a blue band. 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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