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Sagittarius Creations by Jennifer and Elisa

Colonial Earthenware

Earthenware is fired at the lowest temperatures, ranging from 900 o to 1050 o C. This pottery is porous and requires glazing on at least one surface
to hold liquids. The glaze generally contains lead oxide. Tin oxide is sometimes added to create an opaque glaze. However, not all earthenware is glazed, as is seen today on red clay flowerpots.

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	Astbury - Type: Thinly potted earthenware with a dense, dull-red body and a ginger colored lead glaze. Decorated by engine turning or with white clay sprig-molding.			Manganese Mottled: Most commonly occurs as a fine, buff-bodied ware covered by a yellowish lead glaze mottled with dark streaks or speckles, although coarser body fabrics were also produced. Vessels are often tankards or other table wares, but other forms were made as well.
	Border Ware: A coarse earthenware with a fine-grained, pale gray to whitish paste. A variant with a light reddish paste, sometimes streaked with the white – gray clay, is known as Red Border ware.			North Devon: A green, yellow, or brown lead glazed coarse earthenware with a reddish pink to orange paste that has a gray core. Temper or decorative technique define the different types.
	Buckley-type: A hard brick-red to purplish earthenware paste made by combining red and yellowish clays. Vessels are usually thick, often with ribbed exteriors, and generally glazed with a thick black lead glaze.			Staffordshire - type Slipware: Typically, a thin, buff-bodied earthenware coated with white and dark slips and decorated with trailed, combed, or marbled designs. Generally, the white slip covers more of the visible surface than the dark slip.
	Creamware: is a clear lead-glazed, thinly potted, refined earthenware with a cream colored body. Variations in decorative techniques, such as molding, underglaze and overglaze painting, and transfer-printing, are used to describe and date these wares.			Tin - Glazed: A soft-bodied earthenware ceramic with a lead glaze to which has been added tin-oxide, often painted with blue and polychrome designs. Wares commonly found on Chesapeake sites are Dutch or English in origin, although French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish tin-glazed wares are sometimes recovered.
	Jackfield - type: A fine earthenware with a thin purplish to gray body covered with a lustrous black glaze. Often decorated with molded designs and gilding.