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. Tall pear-shaped cream pot body with flaring foot, and attached loop handle and sparrow beak pouring spout, the surface is covered with brown, cream, sky blue, and coffee-colored slips which are marbled and combed, upper edge of the cream pot body is ribbed and painted in green glaze. Condition: Cover is missing.
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