An Elizabethan pottery bowl in Coarse Sandy Ware

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An Elizabethan pottery bowl in Coarse Sandy Ware

Large bowls or pancheons were the most common form of ceramics used in Exeter households in the years c. 1500-1650. They often show signs of sooting on their outside surfaces, and were probably used in cooking. They always have a plain lead glaze- usually green or brown in colour.

This example, recovered almost complete from a pit in Queen Street dating to about 1600, is made in Coarse Sandy ware, the most common fabric at Exeter at this time. Similar vessels were made in the potteries of Donyatt in Somerset, but other potteries also probably made such wares.

Acknowledgments: RAM Museum

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