English Brown (Fulham-Type) Salt-Glazed Stoneware Tankard Body/Handle Sherd

One English Brown salt-glazed stoneware body sherd with an attached handle terminal from a mug or tankard. The exterior has mottling with speckles and a brown-tinted salt glaze. The exterior body is coated with a brown iron oxide slip. The interior appears gray in color. Similar sherds from tankards have been found within the same context but they do not mend and may not from the same vessel. 

• Object number

  814.72

• Date made

  1690 - 1775

• Decoration

  Iron Oxide Slip (Mottled Slip)

• Animals/objects

  Tankard

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Alcohol-Related

• Material

  Stoneware

• Context

  Lot 14 North, Midden Level 2 (624.814)

• Forms

  Body/Handle

• Ware types

  English Brown (Fulham-Type)

  Salt-Glazed

• Techniques

  Wheel Thrown