Jasperware was made in dark and light blue, gray, pink, and perhaps other colors by E.A Radford, Tiffin, Ohio, in the 1890s and in Zanesville by his son Alfred (d. 1903)and is common today in Canada, Germany, and England.
James L. Murphy
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From: David Babson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:09 pm
Subject: Re: Blue-bodied earthenware
> I've seen sherds of this description on mid-late 19th century rural
> domestic sites, usually as a very small percentage (2% or less) of the
> total ceramics collection. I have no further information on them--I
> have often wondered if the ware type is associated with annular or
> banded wares, perhaps some sort of development from this decorative
> tradition.
>
> D. Babson.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Alasdair Brooks
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Blue-bodied earthenware
>
>
> I might have raised this on HISTARCH a few years ago, but if so, I
> don'tremember what the answer was...
>
> Does anyone know of a reliable citable source for blue-bodied
> earthenwares?
>
> I don't mean pearlware, flow blue-decorated earthenwares, or slightly
> blue-tinged white granite, but vessels where the clay itself is
> actuallysky-blue. Archaeologically speaking, they appear to date
> from the 2nd
> half of the 19th century onwards, and - like whiteware - exist
> along all
> points of a firing continuum, from more low-fired earthenwares to
> materials that are essentially indistinguishable from stoneware.
>
> I've come up with these in small quantities from sites across various
> parts of the world, from Wales to Tasmania, but there doesn't
> appear to
> be much archaeological discussion of them.
>
> For those of you with access to Henry Kelly's 1999 book on Scottish
> pottery ("Scottish Ceramics", Schiffer), there are good
> photographs of
> the right sort of vessel on pages 108 (plate 21.2) and 110 (21.13),
> where they're described as blue earthenware imitations of parian
> pitchers. I also have a photograph of something similar in a book on
> Welsh pottery where they're deeply unconvincingly described as an
> attempt to imitate jasperware. But that's about it.
>
> I don't really remember seeing anything similar when I was working in
> the US, but since that's over 7 years ago now, my memory might be
> playing tricks on me....
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Alasdair Brooks
>
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