Details

LOT 1759

Medieval Ceramic Group

15TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER

4 - 7 in. (3.3 kg total, 10-18 cm).

Including a jar with scalloped foot, a piriform juglet, footed pot with handle, small jar with remaining handle, likely bird water feeder and a stamped tripod dish; most glazed; most chipped or cracked. [6, No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.

Literature

See similar jars in Jennings, S., Medieval Pottery in the Yorkshire Museum, York, 1992, fig.44.

Footnotes

The salt-glazed stoneware jugs, like some of the specimens here presented, had a distinctive pitted ‘orange-skin’ surface. These tall jugs often have grooves around their bodies to support them during the high-temperature firing which was necessary to achieve the hard fabric. First imported into Britain in the early 14th century stone wares became common in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most came from production centres in the Rhineland, notably Cologne, Frechen, Langerwehe, Raeren and Westerwald.