Ashmolean Museum: PotWeb: Early Post-Medieval pottery 12

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2000 years of pottery forms and shapes
Early Post-medieval AD 1450 - 1600

Common name Rhenish stonewares
Class Baluster drinking jug and rounded drinking cup
Height left, 240mm right, 180mm
Identifier PW36
Production centre in the vicinity of Siegburg, Rhineland
Distribution across northern Europe
Use drinking vessels
Date 16th century AD
Published in Mellor 1997b, Fig 7, 9
Historic context the tall vessel was found in the making of King Edward Street, Oxford and the other vessel was found in digging for foundations on the site of the Three Cups Inn, Queen Street, Oxford

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