Description:
Collection of creamware fragments or sherds (glazed and biscuit wares), from the "Melbourne Factory" site in Derbyshire, England. Included in the biscuit fragments are five plate rims (feather edge, royal edge, 2 pieces of beaded rim, and a leafy rim), 2 tea cup fragments, and finial; the glazed fragments are a handle and an everted rim fragment. Collected by Brian Adams, author with Anthony Thomas, of A Potwork in Devonshire: The History and Products of the Bovey Tracey Potteries, 1750-1836 (1996). Early excavations at the Melbourne site indicated that creamware was manufactured there for 20--25 years, starting in the early 1760s and stopping before 1785. But these isolated fragments were not kiln wasters and there is no evidence for a Melbourne manufactory of creamware at this time.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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