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1911.29.88

Ointment pot of ceramic with light reddish white glaze. [MJD 08/09/2014]

1911.29.88

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ointment pot of ceramic with light reddish white glaze. [MJD 08/09/2014]
Long description
Ointment pot of tinglaze earthenware. The fine grained ceramic pot has light reddish brown glaze. The rim and base are unglazed. The pot is cylindrical with a flared rim and flared foot. [MJD 08/09/2014]
Geographical reference
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England Oxfordshire Oxford University of Oxford All Souls College
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Percy Manning
PRM source Percy Manning
Date / Period
Date made: Circa 1620-1675
Date collected
1896
Acquisition information
Donated: 1911
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Material Tin Metal, Process Glazed
Dimensions
Diameter: max 47 mm, Height: max 41 mm, Diameter 47 mm base, Weight 46 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1911.29.88
Research and responses

This pot was studied by Maureen Mellor, archaeological ceramic specialist and tutor at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, on 23 September 2014. She noted the pot was tinglaze earthenware. Maureen gave a time period for the pot from c. 1620 - 1675 AD (Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Society (69)). Probably made in London. [MJD 23/09/2014]

According to the British History Online article on All Souls College building work occurred in the Grand Dormitory in 1896. 'A coffee room was added on the east in 1824 —previously the present pantry had been the coffee room (since 1792) —and rebuilt on a larger scale in 1896.'. This may be the excavation site for the pot. 'All Souls College', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3, the University of Oxford, ed. H E Salter and Mary D Lobel (London, 1954), pp. 173-193 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp173-193 [accessed 31 March 2015]. [MJD 31/03/2015]

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