Type: Ironstone, Undecorated

Name, Origin, Date

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Ironstone, Undecorated

England/

1840-1930

Historic (Spanish Colo...

Earlier/Alternative Names

Undecorated White Granite Ware

General Information

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This common nineteenth century utilitarian pottery is part of the general category of English "Stone China" It is referred to in the archaeological literature as "Undecorated White Granite Ware", or as "Undecorated Ironstone", after Mason’s Patent Ironstone China (which was a specific brand of stone china patented in 1813). Undecorated Stone China is most common after ca. 1840, and most of the granite wares,and ironstone pottery before that date were decorated with transfer printing, painting, enameling or a combination of these. Decorated Stone China /Ironstone dates to about 1805-1840 (Miller 1991).


This description of Ironstone, Undec...

Detail Attributes

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Morphological Attributes

basin, bowl, plate, pl...

Technological Attributes

White, hard, almost vi...

Background color is...

Vessels  0

Break Photos  0

Petrographic Samples  0

Description

White, hard, almost vitrified paste. Paste is usually thick because vessels were often utilitarian. Background color is white, but may have a faint bluish cast. Thick, clear, glasslike glaze, with a network of very fine crazing appearing underneath the glassy surface. Usually not decorated but can be transfer printed.

Associated Wares/Ware Families

Refined Earthenware


Associated Petrofabrics

Associated Kilns/Workshops

Bibliography

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  1. 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

Discussion/Acknowledgements

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