18th Century Material Culture

Earthenware Drinking Vessels I

 English
Lead Glazed
Earthenware Mugs & Cups
English Lead Glaze Earthenware Mug with Applied “Star” Medallions from Wiltshire
'MB / 1703'
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Possibly from Sussex
c. 1650 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Possibly from Staffordshire
c. 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Possibly from Staffordshire
c. 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug from Tickenhal
Late 17th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire
c. 1710
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug
c. 1700 - 1800
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Manganese - Mottled Earthenware Mug Fragment from Staffordshire with “WR” Excise Stamp for King William
c. 1700 - 1720
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Manganese - Mottled Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire
c. 1700 - 1720
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Manganese - Mottled Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire with “AR” Excise Stamp for Queen Ann
c. 1702 - 1714
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Manganese - Mottled Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire with “AR” Excise Stamp for Queen Ann
c. 1702 - 1714
(Chipstone Foundation)
 English
Lead Glazed - Slip Decorated
Earthenware Mugs & Cups
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Sgraffito Earthenware Mug from North Devon
One of Many Shipment Damaged Wares Found in the Drainage Ditch of William May of Jamestown, Virginia c. 1670 - 1680
(National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Chipstone Foundation, Photo Gavin Ashworth)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Sgraffito Earthenware Mug from North Devon
One of Many Shipment Damaged Wares Found in the Drainage Ditch of William May of Jamestown, Virginia c. 1670 - 1680
(National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Chipstone Foundation, Photo Gavin Ashworth)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Sgraffito Earthenware Mug from North Devon
One of Many Shipment Damaged Wares Found in the Drainage Ditch of William May of Jamestown, Virginia c. 1670 - 1680
(National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Chipstone Foundation, Photo Gavin Ashworth)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup with Stamped Pad Decorations of “IE” & “1697”
by John Eaglestone of Wrotham, Kent 1697
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from Wrotham
by John Eagleston 1710
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshite
“MR. THOMAS FFENTON” c. 1690 - 1700
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug with Mould - Applied Decorations from Staffordshire
c. 1730 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
1660
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from North Staffordshire
Late 17th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from North Staffordshire
Late 17th Century
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire
c. 1690
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
Late 17th to Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
“1695 : W : K : C”
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from Burstern
1701
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from North Staffordshire
Late 17th Century
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup Shard from North Staffordshire
Found in a Pre - 1743 Deposit Under Faneuil Hall In Boston, Massachusetts
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
c. 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup from North Staffordshire
c. 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup Possibly from North Staffordshire
Early 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Cup Possibly from North Staffordshire
Early 18th Century
(Skinner)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug
Recovered from a c. 1735 - 1755 Brick Lined Privy at 236 Church Street in Philadelphia. Thought to be Locally Made
(American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas / Photo Courtesy Chris Rowell)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug
Recovered from a c. 1735 - 1755 Brick Lined Privy at 236 Church Street in Philadelphia. Thought to be Locally Made
(American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas / Photo Courtesy Chris Rowell)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug (Fragment) from Staffordshire
Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glaze Slip Decorated Earthenware Sgraffito Mug Likely from North Staffordshire
c. 1720 - 1740
(Stoke - on - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Sgraffito Earthenware Cup Probably from North Staffordshire
c. 1720 - 1740
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glaze Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire or Derbyshire
c. 1700 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glaze Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire or Derbyshire
c. 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glaze Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from Harlow
c. 1660
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glaze Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug from Wrotham
c. 1704
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Incised through a White Slip (Sgraffiato) from Staffordshire
1747
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Cup from Yorkshire
1777
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed “Agateware” Earthenware Cup from Staffordshire (Newcastle-under-Lyme)Yorkshire
by Samuel Bell c. 1740
(Chipstone Foundation)
 English
Lead Glazed - Slip Decorated
Earthenware
Two Handle Cups
English Lead Glaze Slip Decorated Earthenware “Loving Cup” from North Staffordshire
Late 17th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or “Posset Pot”
North Staffordshire, c. 1620 - 1720
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or “Posset Pot”
“George Taylor : 1692”
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or “Posset Pot”
“THE BEST IS NOT TOO GOOD FOR YOV.” c. 1695
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or “Posset Pot” from North Staffordshire
“The Best Is Not Too Good For You: Robbort Wood” Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or Posset Pot from Staffordshire
c. 1710
(Private Collection)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or Posset Pot from Staffordshire
c. 1710
(Private Collection)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or Posset Pot from Staffordshire
c. 1680 - 1710
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Sgraffito Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or “Posset Pot” Possibly from North Staffordshire
“IG” / “1723”
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Sgraffito Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or “Posset Pot” Possibly from North Staffordshire
“IG” / “1723”
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Sgraffito Two Handle Cup or Posset Pot from Staffordshire
“Mary Ronley [or Rowley] her Cup 1731. ”
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Posset Pot from Staffordshire or Derbyshire
18th Century
(Aberswyth University)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup from Staffordshire
c. 1710
(Chipstone Foundation)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Two Handle Cup
Recovered from the 1777 Continental Encampment at Fort Montgomery, New York Mid 18th Century
(Fort Montgomery)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Two Handle Cup from Bristol or Staffordshire
c. 1730 - 1760
(Chipstone Foundation)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or Posset Pot
Recovered from the Goodswll House Site, North Branford, Connecticut Mid 18th Century
(State of Connecticut)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Two Handle Cup or Posset Pot
Recovered from the 3 Cranes Tavern in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Burned by the British Army on June 17, 1775
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
English Lead Glazed Sgraffito Slip Decorated Earthenware “Loving Cup” from North Staffordshire
1761
(Private Collection)
 English
Lead Glazed - Slip Decorated
Earthenware “Fuddling Cups”
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Fuddling Cup
“I Love None / But You / Alone 1738 / M W / 1738”
Donyatt, Somerset 1738
(Stoke - On - Trent)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Fuddling Cup
Sgraffito Decoration of Tulips “In Your / Sight / Is My Delight”
Donyatt, Somerset, Mid 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Fuddling Cup
Sgraffito Decoration of Tulips “In Your / Sight / Is My Delight”
Donyatt, Somerset, Mid 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
 English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Fuddling Cup
Sgraffito Decoration of Tulips “In Your / Sight / Is My Delight”
Donyatt, Somerset, Mid 18th Century
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Fuddling Cup
“Drink / And Mery / 1693”
Donyatt, Somerset, 1693
(Stoke - On - Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Fuddling Cup
“Drink / And Mery / 1693”
Donyatt, Somerset, 1693
(Stoke - On - Trent)
 English
Lead Glazed - Slip Decorated
Earthenware Tygs
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
1649
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg with Pad Decorations
by John Livermore of Wrotham 1649
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg
“MP 1651”
(Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg with Pad Decorations
by Henry Ifield of Kent “HI” & “1668”
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg with Pad Decorations
by Henry Ifield of Kent “HI” & “1668”
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg with Pad Decorations
by Henry Ifield of Kent “HI” & “1668”
(Stoke-On-Trent)
English Lead Glazed 3 Handle Earthenware Mug (Tyg?) from Staffordshire
c. 1640 - 1660
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug (Tyg?) from Staffordshire
c. 1700
(Victoria &Albert)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
1711
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
1711
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
1711
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
c. 1722 - 1727
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
c. 1722 - 1727
(Chipstone Foundation)
English Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Tyg from Wrotham, Kent
c. 1722 - 1727
(Chipstone Foundation)
 English
Lead Glazed
Puzzle Mugs
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Puzzle Mug from Nottingham
c. 1700 - 1750
(Victoria &Albert)
 English
Black Glazed
Earthenware Mugs
English Black Glazed & Gilted Earthenware Mug from Staffordshire
c. 1750 - 1760
(Victoria &Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug with Unfired Gilt and Polychrome Decoration from Staffordshire
c. 1760 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
English Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Painted in Enamel from Staffordshire
c. 1770 - 1780
(Victoria & Albert)
 American
Lead Glazed
Earthenware Mugs
American Lead Glazed Earthenware Barrel - Form Mug from Massachusetts
Attributed to Joseph Bayley of Rowley, Massachusetts c. 1735
(Skinner)
American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Barrel Form Mug from Charlestown or Essex County, Massachusetts
Likely Made Before 1775
(Private Massachusetts Collection / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Barrel Form Mug from Charlestown or Essex County, Massachusetts
Likely Made Before 1775
(Private Massachusetts Collection / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Barrel Form Mug from Charlestown or Essex County, Massachusetts
Likely Made Before 1775
(Private Massachusetts Collection / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug, Kiln Furniture & Wasters from Charlestown, Massachusetts
by Samuel Marshall of Charlestown c. 1730 - 1760
(Hollis Brodrick & Strawberry Banke Archeology Department / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug, Kiln Furniture & Wasters from Charlestown, Massachusetts
by Samuel Marshall of Charlestown c. 1730 - 1760
(Hollis Brodrick & Strawberry Banke Archeology Department / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
 American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug Likely from Charlestown, Massachusetts
Found in the Privy of the Three Cranes Tavern, Charlestown. Massachusetts, that was Burned by the British June 17, 1775
Mid 18th Century - 1775
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
 American Lead Glazed Slip Decorated Earthenware Mug Likely from Charlestown, Massachusetts
Found in the Privy of the Three Cranes Tavern, Charlestown. Massachusetts, that was Burned by the British June 17, 1775
Mid 18th Century - 1775
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
 American Black Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Attributed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Recovered from a c. 1735 - 1755 Brick Lined Privy at 236 Church Street in Philadelphia. Thought to be Locally Made
(American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas / Photo Courtesy Chris Rowell)
 American Black Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Attributed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Recovered from a c. 1750 - 1769 Brick Lined Privy at 5 North 3rd Street in Philadelphia. Thought to be Locally Made
(American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas / Photo Courtesy Chris Rowell)
American Black Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Found at Franklin Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania c 1769
(National Park Service, Independence National Historical Park)
 American Black Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Found in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Recovered from Independence National Historical Park. Thought to be Locally Made c. 1770 - 1779
(Independence National Historical Park / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
 American Black Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Attributed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Recovered from a Philadelphia Privy on Cuthbert Street c. 1780 - 1790. Thought to be Locally Made
(Bruce Adwell / Early American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas)
 American Lead Glazed Earthenware Mugs from Massachusetts
Attributed to Daniel Bayle of Newburyport, Massachusetts Late 18th Century
(Skinner)
 American Black Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug or Pot Attributed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Recovered from a c. 1750 - 1769 Brick Lined Privy at 5 North 3rd Street in Philadelphia. Thought to be Locally Made
(American Ceramics by Justin W. Thomas / Photo Courtesy Chris Rowell)
American Brown Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Recovered from Fort Hobbs, North Carolina
Likely by Potter Gottfried Aust of Bethabara, North Carolina Mid 18th Century
(Fort Dobbs - Image Courtesy Scott Douglas)
American Brown Lead Glazed Earthenware Mug Recovered from Fort Hobbs, North Carolina
Likely by Potter Gottfried Aust of Bethabara, North Carolina Mid 18th Century
(Fort Dobbs - Image Courtesy Scott Douglas)
American Kiln Brick with Melted Redware Mug from a Charlestown, Massachusetts, Potter
Mid 18th Century
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
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