Description:
This is an early example of slip decorated earthenwares or dipt wares decorated with marbled and combed slips. These early slip marbled wares exhibit a limited range of colors including white, brown, rust, caramel and sometimes blue and appear with cream or pearl glazes. The decoration was created by dragging a toothed tool through the wet marbling in a constant direction. Marbled slip decorated fragments are found at the Greatbatch site in Fenton, Staffordshire, England, c. 1775-1782 context (this is not a Greatbatch example). The demand for variegated slip wares died out at the turn of the 18th century. This teapot has a domed cover with a round knop, a drum shaped body with attached molded strap handle and molded spout, the surface is covered with brown, cream, and coffee-colored slips which are marbled and combed, the flange of the cover, upper edge of the teapot body and the lower edge of the teapot body are ribbed and painted in green glaze.

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