Ashmolean Museum: PotWeb: Post-medieval pottery 8

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

Common name London Early Post-medieval redware type
Class Cucurbit
Height 354mm
Identifier PW137
Production centre not Oxford region
Distribution similar vessels found in London and one from Jamestown, Virginia, USA
Use for distillation of acids for use in refining metals
Date early 17th century AD
Published in Bruce-Mitford 1939, Fig 26b, 138 Pl XIII no 4
Historic context a property in north eastern suburb of Oxford

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