Ashmolean Museum: PotWeb: Post-medieval pottery 39

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

Common name Ligurian maiolica, northern Italy
Class Small carinated bowl
Height 50mm
Identifier PW35
Production centre in north western Italy
Distribution much exported to northern Europe
Use as tableware
Date late 16th - early 17th century AD
Published in Mellor 1997b, Fig 46, 41-42
Historic context a cess-pit at the back of the premises of the Fleur de Luce Inn, St Aldates, Oxford
Presented by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

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