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English medieval pottery was produced in Britain from the sixth to the late fifteenth centuries AD. During the sixth to the eighth centuries, pottery was handmade locally and fired in a bonfire. Common pottery fabrics consisted of clay tempered with sand or shell, or a mix of sand and shell.
Beswick Pottery; Bovey Tracey Potteries; Bow porcelain factory; Brannam Pottery; Bretby Art Pottery; Briglin Pottery; Bristol porcelain; Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co; Burleigh Pottery; Burmantofts Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects ... they found deposits of clay which were analysed by English potters as excellent for ...
Like other English potteries, the disruption to trade from the Napoleonic Wars was a blow from which it never recovered. [3] The works, on what is now Pottery Street, Castleford, had been a pottery under previous owners since about 1770, [4] and continued to be so after the sale by Dunderdale
English delftware pottery and its painted decoration is similar in many respects to that from Holland, but its peculiarly English quality has been commented upon: "... there is a relaxed tone and a sprightliness which is preserved throughout the history of English delftware; the overriding mood is provincial and naïve rather than urbane and sophisticated."
Pottery from the United Kingdom, vessels and other objects made from clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard, durable form. Major types include earthenware , stoneware and porcelain .
16th century Border ware jug. Border ware is a type of post-medieval British pottery commonly used in the South of England, London and then later in the early American colonies beginning in the sixteenth and ending in the nineteenth century with a height of popularity and production in the seventeenth century.