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LOT 1734
Medieval Glazed Pottery Fragment Group
15TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
27 1/3 x 12 in. (19.2 kg total including box, 69.5 x 30.5 cm).
Including various vessel elements such as lids, feet and bodies, some with decorative motifs; together with fragmentary glass vessels. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of two-handled cooking pots from Low Countries Brown, D., H., Pottery in Medieval Southampton, c.1066-1510, Southampton, 2002, fig.268.
FootnotesAmong the interesting objects of this hoard there is a two-handled cooking pot with partial internal and external clear glaze. These late medieval potteries (circa 1490-1510) were often imported to England from the Low Countries. If in the high medieval period French potteries remained the most common Continental import, in the late Medieval Age the products of France, the Low Countries, the Rhineland and the Iberian Peninsula occurred in roughly equal proportions.
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