LOT 1743

Medieval Ceramic Vessel Group

15TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER

5 3/4 - 13 1/4 in. (4.15 kg total, 14.5-33.5 cm).

Including glazed vessels of various types: tripod pots, dishes, platters, together with a decorated fragment; chipped and cracked. [5, No Reserve]

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

Cf. for similar examples of redware tripods from Low Countries Brown, D., H., Pottery in Medieval Southampton, c.1066-1510, Southampton, 2002, fig.28.

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. Ceramics from Dundee, Scotland, and Southampton, confirm that one of the most common vessel types employed among 1490-1510 A.D. was the tripod pipkin, with globular body, rounded base, three legs and a single or double handle, like the specimen here visible. These specimens were very often redware pottery imported from the Low Countries.