Sounds like it might possibly be black-glazed redware. However, I don't believe black-glazed redware was popular after 1830 even though it may have been in production in small quantities in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The glaze has a glassy "sheen" to it from the additive of magnesium oxide, not to be confused with "lustre ware." Pat Tucker Swanton, Ohio -----Original Message----- >From: Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Feb 21, 2011 8:06 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: ceramics... > >Feb. 21, 2011 > >Hello all, > >I have, from a Japanese boarding house in San Diego, 1 large solid dark blackish brown teapot. It has no variation in glaze color it is uniformly solid very dark brown. > >I just had a local collector of Japanese ceramics here and he flatly said it was not Japanese. (I agree.) To me it looks like English or American made "Rockingham". > >But the paste is red. > >Jane Perkins Claney's Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930 (2004) defines Rockingham as on white or yellow paste. > >Mary Brewer's book Collector's Guide to Rockingham (1996) , page 9, says Rockingham glaze was put over an earlier yellow glaze "that went over a redware paste" (my emphasis). This is not the case here; it is glazed directly over the red paste. > >It does not look like the photos of redware (with Albany slip) I have seen. (Don't find redware here either in local assemblages.) > >Anyone else ever hear of solid brown Rockingham like surface decoration on red paste? > >Or do you call such stuff by another name? > >Thanks for your attention and help, > >S. Walter ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com