Stan South did an article on riveting ceramics some years ago. I
believe it is in the conference papers series. Actually the late
nineteenth century was a period when riveting ceramics was quite
popular. I have a gravy boat I picked up at a flea market that
obviously has been used and washed many times since it was riveted.
It's very late nineteenth century or early twentieth; I'm too lazy to
look up the mark. At the opposite extreme, we found coarse red
earthenwares at the Bloomsbury site that had been bored for mending
early in the nineteenth century or late in the eighteenth. In
Richmond, Virginia, in my youth, there was a porcelain mender who
riveted.



At 1:29 PM -0400 4/9/04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>What were lead rivets used for?  I understand that they were used to repair
>broken ceramics, but this function doesn't seem right for the era of the
>collection I am viewing (apparently late 19th century; North
>Dakota).  Other items
>in the collection are generally domestic.
>
>Mitzi Rossillon
>Renewable Technologies, Inc.
>Butte, America


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