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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