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LOT 1661
Medieval Ceramic Group
15TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
2 1/8 - 11 1/4 in. (4.35 kg total, 5.5-28.5 cm).
Composed primarily of glazed pots, bowls and tankard, including examples retaining their handles and complete examples. [7]
Provenance
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Literature
Cf.similar examples in Casimiro, T.M., Boavida, C., Telmo, S., Neves, D., ‘Ceramics and cultural change in medieval (14th-15th century) Portugal. The case of post-Reconquista Santarém’ in Medieval and later ceramic development, production and trade along the Atlantic seaboard (MPRG Annual Conference 2014), Lisbon, 2018, pp.21-35, figs. 3 no.6, 5 nos.10-11, 6 nos.10-11.
Footnotes
The majority of ceramics here presented are kitchen wares. Usually cooking pots are the most numerous forms in the majority of medieval contexts. They are mostly related to domestic functions, cooking pots being used to boil food or fry it. They come in different sizes and have globular bodies, everted rims and one or two handles.
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