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Have to admit that it looked curved and glazed to me as well, though it
was hard to tell from the image (the link to which I have unhelpfully
accidentally deleted - perhaps the OP can clarify?)
In which case the other option is that it's a light-bodied 'dyed-body ware',
of the highly-fired semi-vitrified 'smear glaze' variety. These vessels
frequently feature elaborate moulded exterior decorations. These
vessels tend to be under-identified archaeologically, because while they
turn up fairly consistently on archaeological sites internationally, they're
also quite rare. Archaeologically-speaking, they usually occur in blue-
bodied varieties, but I've also seen green, grey, and light-buff/cream.
George Miller has previously provided a more detailed description
of these dyed-body materials in a 2004 blog entry following a
discussion on this very list. There are photographs as well:
http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/potterynews/8988.html
There's also a brief discussion on page 30 of my 'British Ceramics in
Australia' book if anyone has access to that.
And I would argue that most British white granite, in my experience,
also features fairly plain geometric and floral designs rather than the
elaborate decoration featured on the illustrated example under
discussion.
Alasdair Brooks
> I do not mean to burst anyone's bubble but it looks to me like the back
> is curved and glazed. Not very tile like in my experience. So, it is a
> reasonably executed classical revival, probably slip cast, sherd of
> white granite. Probably English as most American White granite pieces
> have low decoration that are usually geometric or floral. Maybe from a
> large diameter vessel like a wash pitcher.
> Classical revival starts when? 1760s? and is still around in limited
> quantity today. Wedgwood has always been famous for it. Then white
> granite begins about 1830. So that gives us post 1830 to the early
> 1900s.
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