Creamware, Plain | The Pan-American Ceramics Project

Type: Creamware, Plain

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Creamware, Plain

Country/Region:

England/

Date BCE/CE:

1762-1820 CE

Period:

Historic (Spanish Colo...

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General Information

This description of Creamware, Plain comes from the Historic Archaeology Digital Ceramic Type Collection maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Detail Attributes

Morphological Attributes

Shape

bowl, cup, pitcher, pl...

Shape Type

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Shape Family

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Functional Category

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Technological Attributes

Fabric Description

White to light cream-c...

Technological Description

Creamy yellow surfa...

Firing

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Related Illustrations 0

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Vessels 0

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Description

White to light cream-colored, thin, hard, compact (although slightly porous) paste. Creamy yellow surface glaze caused by the addition of copper to a transparent lead glaze. Yellowish to greenish cast where glaze pools.

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Refined Earthenware

Date:

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Associated Petrofabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

George Miller. "A Revised Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English Ceramics from 1787 to 1880" Historical Archaeology 25(1) (1991), 1-25
Charlie Cobb and Gifford Waters. Historical Archaeology Digital Ceramic Type Collection, 2023. February 23, 2023. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/histarch/ceramic-types/

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

“Sussman 2000b" was also listed on the FLMNH website but the bibliographic information was not provided.

"Hume 1969" was also listed on the FLMNH website but the bibliographic information was not provided.