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White Salt Glazed

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Paste shot of piece of white bodied white salt-glazed stoneware.

Paste shots of dipped
white salt-glazed stoneware.

Paste Shot of white-bodied
white salt glazed stoneware.

Oxon Hill 18PR175 18th-century well		Angelica Knoll, 18CV60 c. 1650 - 1770 Plantation

Dipped white salt-glazed, mug rim sherd, Vessel #254, recovered from 1740s level within a well filled c. 1720s-1750s.	Dipped white salt-glazed, mug rim and handle sherds, Vessel #253, recovered from 1740s level within a well filled c. 1720s-1750s.	Wheel thrown tankard with white salt glaze stoneware body and tin glaze.
Oxon Hill 18PR175 18th-century well		Angelica Knoll, 18CV60 c. 1650 - 1770 Plantation

Lid to teapot or coffee pot with sprig molded decorations. The slight shadow created by the metal sprig mold can be seen around the sprigged element at the lower right and in the detail shot. The unglazed area at the lower left is where another sprigged element detached from the lid. Vessel 224 recovered from 1740s level within a well filled c. 1720s-1750s.	Sprig molded baluster-shaped mug commemorating the capture of Portobello by Admiral Vernon in 1739.	Sprig molded straight sided tankard commemorating the capture of Portobello by Admiral Vernon in 1739.
Angelica Knoll, 18CV60 c. 1650 - 1770 Plantation

Sprig molded straight sided tankard commemorating the capture of Portobello by Admiral Vernon in 1739.	Tankard with sprig applied ornament. The molded motif appears to be the British royal arms (see complete example on right from Skerry and Hood (2009:102)
	Private collection
Press molded sweetmeat dish with sprigged elements including flowers, birds and containers of fruit.	Teapot from c. 1760 uses same sprig molds as this sweetmeat dish.	Unknown vessel form, possibly a jelly mold

Oxon Hill 18PR175
18th-century well

Angelica Knoll, 18CV60
c. 1650 - 1770 Plantation

Plain saucer, vessel #225.

Saucer with brown iron oxide exterior rim glazing from 18CV60.

Plain saucer, vessel #225, top and side view.
Recovered from a well filled c. 1720s - 1750s

Saucer with brown iron oxide exterior rim glazing, top and side view.
This vessel is fully white-bodied, not dipped.

44FX762 Mount Vernon
South Grove Midden Phase 2 (1759-1775)

Photos courtesy of Mount Vernon


White salt glaze stoneware slop or waster bowl. Rim diameter: 5.90”; Base diameter: 2.56”; Vessel height: 2.70”; Object ID: 2556. Learn more about this object at: http://mountvernonmidden.org/default.html.	White salt glaze stoneware pitcher. Rim diameter: 3.50”; Object ID: 2562. Learn more about this object at: http://mountvernonmidden.org/default.html.	White salt glaze stoneware porringer with shell-molded handle. Rim diameter: 4.33”; Base diameter: 2.75”; Object ID: 2565. Learn more about this object at: http://mountvernonmidden.org/default.html.

Smith St. Leonard 18CV91
c. 1711- c. 1750 Plantation

Angelica Knoll, 18CV60
c. 1650 - 1770 Plantation

Cup with incised decoration.
Recovered from Feature 4 – Kitchen
hearth-front cellar, filled circa 1750.

Patty pan with incised decoration
created with a lathe.

Oxon Hill 18PR175
18th-century well

Angelica Knoll, 18CV60
c. 1650 - 1770 Plantation

Mug with incised lathe turned decoration at base and rim. Handle
terminal notched faceting detail – used by a number of Staffordshire
potteries (Hilyard 2005 p. 41, 44). Recovered from a well filled
c. 1720s - c. 1750s, Lots 2341 and 2343.

Patty pan with incised decoration, 7.5” diameter.

Saunders Point 18AN39
c. 1700-1790 Plantation

Howard-McHenry Mill, 18BA100
early to late 19th-century mill
and tenancy complex

Molded plate rim with 'barley' pattern, Howard-McHenry Mill, 18BA100 /393.

Molded plate with 'barley' rim pattern, Lots 1 and 2.

Molded plate with 'barley' rim pattern, Lot 393.

Antietam Furnace, 18WA288
Iron Furnace Industrial Complex 1761-1783

Molded plate rim with 'bead and reel' pattern.

Molded plate with “gadroon" rim pattern
(Skerry and Hood 2009:231).
Also called "beaded" or "bead and reel."

Molded plate with “gadroon" rim pattern.

Pleasant Prospect 18PR705
c. 1730 to 1780 Plantation

Antietam Furnace, 18WA288
Iron Furnace Industrial Complex 1761-1783

Molded plate rim with molded 'dot, diaper, basket' pattern, close up on right. Antietam Furnace, 18WA288.

Plate with "bead and reel" or "gadroon" rim motif, Lot 590.

Molded plate with molded 'dot, diaper, basket' rim
pattern, close up on right.

Queenstown Courthouse 18QU124

Molded plate in "dot diaper and basket" rim pattern, Lot 68.

Molded plate in "dot, diaper and basket" rim pattern,
Lots 33 and 14.

Molded plate in barley rim pattern, Lot 146.

Plate molded with what is most likely the "Chinese
rail/basket" rim pattern shown here in a whole complete
plate example (Skerry and Hood 2009), Lot 32.

Saunders Point 18AN39 c. 1700-1790 Plantation

Scratch blue cup with floral motif, recovered from cellar hole dating to mid-18th century, Lots 33, 49.	Scratch blue cup with floral motif, recovered from cellar hole dating to mid-18th century, Lots 1 and 2.	Scratch blue saucer in floral pattern, recovered from cellar hole dating to mid-18th century, Lots 1 and 2.
Clagett's Brewery 18BC38	Horn Point 18DO58 Late 17th-to early 18th-century plantation	Federal Site/Block 1370 18BC33 Feature 20

Pearlware scratch blue chamberpot with GR sprig molded medallion. Rim diameter: 8.12”, Base diameter: 4.50”, Vessel height: 4.50”. Lot: 9, Provenience: 1G3.886.106, Privy Stratum 2	Scratch blue cup, lot 257.	Debased scratch blue white salt glaze stoneware jug. Manufactured c. 1770-1800. Estimated height: 4.5 to 5.0” Rim diameter: 1.75”; Base diameter 2.0”

Pleasant Prospect 18PR705
c. 1730 to 1780 Plantation

Bennett's Point, 18QU28
Late 17th-to mid-18th-century plantation

Scratch blue saucer with floral motif.

Scratch-blue body sherds from undetermined hollow vessels, /122
(left and center), Lot 123 (right), center sherd has “grassy” motif.

Fort Frederick 18WA20
2nd half 18th-century frontier fort

Scratch blue white salt glaze saucer, Lot 300 from 18WA20.

Scratch blue white salt glaze stoneware saucer with incised grassy motif, Lot 146.001 from 18WA20.

Scratch blue saucer, Lot 300.

Scratch blue saucer with
incised grassy motif, Lot 146.001.

Fort Frederick 18WA20
2nd half 18th-century frontier fort

Oxon Hill 18PR175
18th-century well

Debased scratch blue bowl with cross-hatched motif, both sherds appear to be from the same vessel, Lots 118.031 and 118.032 from 18WA20.

Debased Scratch-blue body sherds, Oxon Hill, 18PR175, vessels #6031 (left) and #6030 (right).

Debased scratch blue bowl with cross-hatched motif,
both sherds appear to be from the same vessel,
Lots 118.031 and 118.032.

Debased Scratch blue body sherds from undetermined
hollow vessel forms, Lot #s 6031 (left) and #6030 (right).
Well filled c. 1720s - 1750s.

Queenstown Courthouse 18QU124

Debased white salt glaze stoneware hollow vessel, Lot 152.	Debased scratch blue hollow (probably jug), Lot 152 – test unit 44.4.	Debased scratch blue white salt glaze stoneware chamberpot decorated with sprig molded GR medallion and incised floral motifs. Manufactured c. 1770-1800. Rim diameter: 8.00”
Bennett's Point, 18QU28 Late 17th to mid-18th century plantation		Saunders Point 18AN39 c. 1700-1790 Plantation

Overglaze polychrome painted cup, Lot 128.	Overglaze polychrome painted body sherd, /133.	Saucer with overglaze enamel painted floral motif, Lots 33, 68.
Fort Frederick 18WA20 2nd half 18th-century frontier fort	Mount Vernon 44FX762/17)	Private collection

Overglaze polychrome enamel painted cup or similar small hollow vessel.	Wheel thrown mug with bands of rustication, recovered from South Grove Midden at Mount Vernon. Photo courtesy of Karen Price, Mount Vernon Preservation.	Littler-Wedgwood Blue molded teapot with floral and crabstock handle and spout.

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