Nottingham Stoneware

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Saunders Point 18AN39 ca. 1700-1790

Teapot lid with beaded decoration. Rim diameter is 2.5”.	Probable pipkin or saucepan. The recovered portions of this vessel do not include the hallmark pinched pouring lip or the angled handle, but the flat bottom and globular shape suggest its original function as a pipkin. Vessel height is 4”; rim diameter is 3.5” and base diameter is 2.75”.	Small tankard with cordoning at base. Base diameter is 2.0”.
Angelica Knoll 18CV60 Ca. 1650-1750

Body sherds of large hollow handled vessel (probable 2 handled cup, also known as loving cup) with highly lustrous brown surface, rouletting and sprig molded armorial device. Vessel diameter, approximately 6.5”. 18CV60 /1.045 - left/ 18CV60 /1.082 - right		Body sherd grey pasted Nottingham-type stoneware. 18CV60

Rim and body sherds of handled hollow vessel decorated with rouletting, and a floral sprig molded motif. Everted rim decorated with rouletting. 18CV60 /1.062 - left/ 18CV60/1.073 - right		Body sherd of unidentified hollow vessel with zigzag and straight incised lines and band of rustication. This cylindrical vessel, with a body diameter of approximately 4”, curves inward above the rustication. Rustication in Nottingham-type stoneware is more typical of the third quarter of the eighteenth century. 18CV60 /1.119.
Angelica Knoll 18CV60 Ca. 1650-1750		Clagett’s Brewery 18BC38 Peters� Privy, late 18th to early 19th centuries

Mug rim sherd with bands of rouletting. Indeterminate rim diameter. 18CV60 /1.116.	Body sherd with handle, 18CV60/1.068	Nottingham stoneware jar with incised decoration. Vessel height: 5.25”, Rim diameter: 3.00”, Base diameter: 3.75”. Lot: 19, Provenience: 1112.551, Privy Stratum 4
18DO58 Horne Point c. 1670 - 1770s	Addison Plantation Well 18PR175

Tankard with cordoned banding and decorative motif created with incising and rouletting. Vessel diameter is approximately 3”. Oswald et al. (1982:118) indicates that incised line decorations combined with rouletted shading is typical of circa 1740-1755 period.	This vessel appears to be a plate/ or dish. Flat vessel forms are unusual in Nottingham-type stoneware. The vessel has a reddish stoneware body and a rim diameter of 12”.	Bowl with incised decoration and rouletting used to form patterning within the ovals. Rim diameter is 4.5”.
Pleasant Prospect 18PR705 ca. 1730 - 1790	Hanley Collected by George L. Miller in 1986 in Staffordshire, England

Small bowl with incised line around center of bowl. Vessel height 2", rim diameter 6".	Unidentified hollow vessel, probable bowl, with rouletted decoration along rim and body. Vessel has 11” rim diameter and a 0.25” thick body.	Unidentified hollow vessel with rouletted decoration. The lustrous wash on this vessel masks the salt glaze pitting typical of salt glazed stoneware. Vessel has 0.25” thick walls.
Mount Vernon Midden, 1735-1758 context
Photo used courtesy of Mount Vernon	Photo used courtesy of Mount Vernon	Photo used courtesy of Mount Vernon
Tankard with bands of rustication and cordoning. Capacity estimated at 1.49 pints or about 1 1/2 pints (using imperial measure). Rustication in Nottingham-type stoneware is more typical of the third quarter of the eighteenth century.	Nottingham stoneware bowl with a pedestaled footring and incised lines. It is one of three waster bowls excavated from the midden (Phase I, ca. 1735-1758) and originally belonging to Lawrence Washington.	This mug is undecorated except for incising and cordoning, seen just above the base and below the rim. The mug once would have contained about a gill (about 4 or 5 ounces) of cider or beer.
Private Collection

Pipkin or saucepan with a handle and shallow pouring lip. Vessel height 3.5”; rim diameter 3.25”; base diameter 2.75”.
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