| Description: A near complete bowl with blue markers mark in an ovoid ribbon.
| Technique: Transfer-print | Archaeological Notes: A near complete bowl with blue markers mark in an ovoid ribbon. This consisted of the words PEARL STONE WARE surrounding MAUDE (assumed to be the individual pattern) and an external ribbon containing WEDGEWOOD & Co. This mark is not present in Godden, but the Wedgewood & Co mark was used by the famous Staffordshire potters from 1860 to 1965 operating from their Unicorn and Phoenix Works, Tunstall (Godden 1991:655). White under a clear glaze, this bowl has a distinctive flat base, plain rim - common to 19th century pearlware (Sussman in Brauner 2000:42) - and blue under glaze patterning on the under rim and base. Pearlware, or pearl white as it was originally called, was introduced in 1779 by Josiah Wedgewood to cash in on the then current trend away from cream coloured dinnerware and was achieved by covering a creamware fabric with a blue-tinged glaze (Sussman in Brauner 2000:37). |
