I recently saw a teapot spout from NW England (Shropshire) in late blackware
fabric ie the same as the c17 tygs -possibly from somewhere like Buckley or
Lancs rather than the refined wares of Staffs.

paul courtney
Leicester
UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant L. Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Jackfield ware?


> Tim,
>
> Without seeing the sherds I would say your vessel is Jackfield (or
> Jackfield-type or blackware). You have a highly-fired earthenware body
> (fired to stoneware hardness) with a lustrous black glaze and it is from a
> teapot.
>
> I've only seen Jackfield on fine earthenware tea or coffee sets. I have
> found shiny black glaze on coarse earthenwares, mostly redware bowls and
> cups, but I don't call them Jackfield, because the body is not refined or
> highly fired. Instead these are described as a redware vessel with a
"black
> glaze."
>
> According to Hume (2001:275) Jackfield is "a thin, red- or gray bodied,
> high-fired earthenware under a shine iron-black glaze." On page 276 of
this
> same reference there is a picture of a "jackfield-type jug in a
salt-glazed
> stoneware form characteristic of the 1750s."
>
> The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab web site has this to say
about
> the term Jackfield, "Although associated with the town of Jackfield in
> Shropshire, this ware was also commonly produced in Staffordshire by
potters
> such as Thomas Whieldon. Therefore, the use of the term "Jackfield-type"
or
> even "blackware" is preferred (Barker and Halfpenny 1990). Link to this
page
> below.
>
> I would like to hear how others classify their black glazed
vessels/sherds?
> Are all black glazes called "Jackfield," "Jackfield type," or "blackware"
or
> just vessels with well-fired refined earthenware bodies? Did 18th and 19th
> century consumers distinguish between high-fired and low-fired earthenware
> bodies?
>
>
> Grant L. Day
>
>
>
>
> Barker, David and Pat Halfpenny
> 1990 Unearthing Staffordshire:  Towards a New Understanding of 18th
Century
> Ceramics.  City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent,
> England.
>
>
> Noel Hume, Ivor.
> 2001 If These Pots Could Talk:  Collecting 2,000 Years of British
Household
> Pottery. Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
>
> Link to web site with jackfield information
>
http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/Historic_Ceramic_Web_Page/Historic%20Ware%2
> 0Descriptions/Jackfield.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> Grant L. Day, RPA
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