Figure 12. — An incomplete sagger and lid for quart tankards, with a 

 Swan Tavern pint mug seated in it. Found at Yorktown. 



is a group of pipkins ( fig. 1 3, no. 7) . These were often 

 overburned and improperly salted, turning the body 

 a greenish gray and the iron-oxide slip to a coarse 

 brown mottling with a similar greenish hue. The 

 bodies of these vessels are generally bag-shaped and 

 are broader toward the base than at the rim, which is 

 slightly everted and tooled into a rounded lip over a 

 cordon of comparable width. The handles were made 

 separately in solid rolls that were pierced longitudi- 



nally with a stick or metal rod to avoid warping in 

 firing or heat retention in use. They possess pestlelike 

 terminals that were luted to the body after shaping. 

 No definite evidence has yet been found to identify 

 these vessels as Yorktown products, but they do 

 exhibit color characteristics, particularly when over- 

 fired, comparable to those of one of the Coke hemi- 

 spherical bowls as well as to some of the tankard 

 fragments. 



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