| A Vessel for everyman and his family |
| Dated parallels | ||
| Salt-glazed Raeren stoneware drinking vessels are depicted in numerous paintings: such an example is The Wedding Feast painted by Pieter Brueghel in the late 1560s. (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) | 
Raeren
stoneware drinking vessels one with a vertical loop handle and the other
with a strap handle |
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Blackware flared mugs with vertical loop handles |
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| These blackware mugs with single or double vertical loop handles are decorated with lead glaze which probably drew iron from the body of the clay giving rise to a dark colour. It is recognised in Staffordshire from deposits of the mid 17th century. Two of the illustrated vessels were found in association with a porringer made on the Surrey/Hampshire border, identical to one found with a hoard of coins deposited around the 1640s. | ||
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