A selection of ceramics through the ages (5 second delay) Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology The Collections:
PotWeb: Ceramics online
@ the Ashmolean Museum		 • Early Europe & Near East
• Classical to Medieval
• Europe from 1500
• Oriental & Islamic

2000 years of pottery forms and shapes
Post Medieval AD 1600 - 1720

  • Common name Staffordshire Blackware
  • Class Flared mug
  • Height 165mm
  • Identifier PW65
  • Production centre in north Staffordshire
  • Distribution throughout the Midlands
  • Use for drinking ale
  • Date mid 17th century AD
  • Published in Bruce-Mitford 1939, Pl XIV no 6, 137
  • Historic context Pit F in the back garden of property no 44 Broad Street in the north eastern suburb of Oxford
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