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| Mudlarking find: salt glazed cartouche 1550-1700 |
Just love this large chunk of green glazed pottery. I'm always rather moved by seeing the decoration someone has pinched with their finger tips hundreds of year ago. It is unusually refined, does this mean it it was produced in France or is it the more recent (1550-1700) Surrey Hampshire Border Ware? I really am rubbish at identifying the different types of green glazed ceramic, so I'll be taking this down to the Thames Discovery identification session on 4 Feb for some expert advice from Jacqui Pearce the pottery czar from the Museum of London Archaeology.
And finally the oldest pipe I have ever found 1580 - 1620, it's weeny and next to a whopper from the 1770s.
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| Mudlarking finds: clay pipes L 1770s and R 1580 |
Wow, what a great mudlarking blog. Thanks so much for creating it. Your mosaic looks terrific! I've been thinking of doing one for a while. You've really inspired me. Cheers. I'm off mudlarking right now!
ReplyDeleteLove that first piece - so much detail, and no doubt an exciting find!
ReplyDeletenice stuff. I have one of those teeny pipes also, I think in my blog I called it a beginners pipe. Hardly seems worth the effort to light up. I found my first coin yesterday, although its not that old, it was better than nothing. i'm looking forward to seeing your final project. Will you mount the mosaic on wall? If so, it must weight a whole lot!
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Hi Julia,
ReplyDeleteI haven't come across this design before, I've been looking through some of my books but with no luck so far, I thought it could be depicting native Americans maybe?
The early pipe is a great find, the way the stem continues straight into the bowl with no step to the heel is a feature of such early pipes.
Thanks for looking Richard, I came across one picture of a clay pipe with masonic symbols found in the States with a figure with those weird lines emanating from their head - the really old pipe was the one I found when I last bumped into you on the foreshore, it looks like it was bought yesterday it looks so new!
DeleteI've just seen the same picture you found, it doesn't look like the usual masonic pipes, but it's not clear what the shield is on the back and they don't say what the words around the bottom read.
ReplyDeleteI've also now found a drawing of pipe depicting similar figures in a book about Bristol pipe makers, but it doesn't give any information about what they might represent.
I had some doubts about your early pipe when I first saw it but after looking at some references, now I would definitely say you were right with your dating of the pipe.
As you mentioned the shortage of pictures of decorated pipes on the web, I think you will be interested in some articles that have been put on the SCPR website just this week, http://www.scpr.co/Armorials.html they are PDF so you can download them and they are very informative with some pics as well.