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Silas,
the Ferryland, Newfoundland, stoneware collection (ca. 1600-1760) is the topic of my thesis, and unfortunately there are no examples of the handle you describe (note my sample ends with the 2000 season). Nevertheless, I found a few more examples of vessels with this style of handle in my collection of Rhenish museum catalogues and photos:
- two large Frechen Bartmann bottles with 3 medallions each, no date was listed, on display in the Keramikmuseum Westerwald;
- a large Frechen Bartmann bottle made in the Westerwald style, i.e. grey fabric with stamped rosettes, applied lions, and cobalt-blue décor, dated ca. 1700. Frechen potters experimented with Westerwald-style stoneware in an effort to compete with the Westerwald for the lucrative export market at the end of the seventeenth century.
- a Westerwald tea pot dated 1750-1800.
The last two are pictured in an exhibit catalogue from the Keramikmuseum.
Hope this helps,
Nicole Brandon
Kate Dinnel and Silas Hurry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: We recently found an unusual Rhenish brown stoneware fragment recovered in
our excavations at the Van Sweringen site in St. Mary’s City, Maryland,
USA. It is the handle from a large bulbous vessel (jug?) made of three
clay coils wrapped together to form a spiral. The context of our
discovery is an old topsoil which contains only 17th century material. I
have found parallels in some UK collections, Steinzeug (1971) by
Bearbeitet Von Gisela Reineking-Von Bock (specimen number 324, attributed
to Frechen 1600), and both the Vergulde Draeck and Batavia shipwrecks.
There is a nice picture of one in Noël Hume’s If These Pots Could Talk
(page 121). Has anyone seen anything like it on a colonial site in North
America? I haven’t run down any archaeological examples from the US yet.
Thanks in advance for the assistance.
Silas Hurry
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