Looking for information about and archaeological sites containing Jackfield-Like or black-glazed redware. Are there any specific studies of this ceramic type? There appears to be two different, slightly sublte variations of the ware. One is a more refined redware paste or body, finely compact, and thin with the black (shiny) colored glaze that graced tablewares exported from the Staffordshire district of Great Britain, and the other less refined, more crude and flakey for utilitarian redwares that served as food preparation and storage vessels made in New England and the Atlantic seaboard states. The best I can determine from the historical and archaeological literature is that this type, or variations of it, was manufactured from ca. 1740 to 1927. From 1740 to 1790 it was called Jackfield produced in Shropshire and Staffordshire, Great Britain. Its period of popularity for consumer consumption in America seems to be ca. 1790 to 1830.
If anyone can provide additional information and sources on the ceramic type, I would greatly appreciate it. Below is what I have for references that discuss briefly or mention the ware in the literature. If anyone can add to these, I would also greatly appreciate it.
Sources:
Barker, David and Pat Halfpenny
1990 Unearthing Staffordshire: Towards a New Understanding of 18th Century Ceramics (Stoke-on-Trent, England: City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery).
Grettler, David J., George L. Miller, Wade P. Catts, Keith Doms, Mara Guttman, Karen Iplenski, Angela Hoseth, Jay Hodny, and Jay F. Custer
1996 Marginal Farms on the Edge of Town: Final Archaeological Investigations at the Moore-Taylor, Benjamin Wynn (Lewis-E), and Wilson-Lewis Farmsteads, State Route 1 Corridor, Kent County, Delaware (Dover, DE: Delaware Department of Transportation Archaeology Series No. 124)
Hunter Jr., Robert R.
1987 Ceramic Acquisition Patterns at Meadow Farm 1810-1861 (M.A. thesis, College of William and Mary, Williamburg, VA)
Kramer, Greg K. and Lester P. Breininger, Jr.
2011 American Redware (http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=193).
Northeast Museum Services Center (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
2011 “Catologing 101: Lead Glazed Redware vs. Jackfield,” NMSC Archaeology Blog (http://nmscarcheologylab.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/cataloging-101-lead-glazed-redware-
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Nöel Hume, Ivor
2001 If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery (Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation)
1970 A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf).
Steen, Carl
2007 Archaeology at Fort Johnson 2007 – Draft Report (Columbia, SC: The Diachronic Research Foundation).
Steen, Carl and James Legg, Sean Taylor, Ashley Chapman
2002 The MEHRL Project: Archaeological Investigations at the Site of the Hollings Marine Laboratory, Fort Johnson, S.C. (Columbia, SC: Diachronic Research Foundation,).
Pat Tucker
Laboratory of Archaeology
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio, USA
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