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Hi all
I sent this earlier to the ceramics list but realized discussion is
across 2 lists.
Breton pot has biotite in it - see recent paper by Peter Pope et al in
Post-Med Arch ?2008 on export to Canada.
Much western French pot has muscovite in it but is usually fine red or
white glazed ware eg Saintonge.
Post-Medieval Archaeology 42/1 (2008), 48–74
Post-medieval Breton earthenwares in Newfoundland
By PETER E. POPE and MICHAEL BATT
with contributions by MICHAEL J. HUGHES and ROGER T. TAYLOR
SUMMARY: Archaeological investigations of early modern European contexts
at Ferryland and St John’s, Newfoundland, produced sherds of a
previously unidentified coarse earthenware. Petrological study,
stylistic matching and ICP–MS/ICP–AES analysis indicate that they come
from kilns at Saint-Jean-la-Poterie in south-east Brittany. Pottery from
the same centre also reached early modern migratory fishing stations in
Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula, where sherds closely resembling
17th-century wasters from kilns at Pabu-Guingamp in northern Brittany
have also been found. The recovery of earthenwares from these areas is
thought-provoking; the archaeological evidence offers a way to trace the
intricacies of a vernacular economy which is only fitfully recorded in
commercial records.
paul
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