Illustration 25. — Diab-stone- 

 \\arc miin fragment, rim 

 coated with iron oxide. Staf- 

 fordshire, 1 720-30. Same size. 

 (U.S.NM 59.1893.) 



Illusiralion 26. — Whecl-liimcd cover 

 of while, salt-glazed teapot. .Staf- 

 fordshire. .Same size. (USXM 

 59.1622.) 



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r 



/ 



} 



lllu^iratiun .'/ . !'>■ 

 molded, white 

 ware pitcher or 

 Staffordshire. Si 

 (l SNM 59.1891 



of 



d- 



milk jug. 



micaceous and siliceous sand. Simeon Shaw, the 

 early 19th-century historian of the Staffordshire pot- 

 teries, asserted that what he called "Crouch" ware 

 was first made of brick clay and fine sand in 1690, 

 and by 1702 of dark-gray clay and sand."' Although 

 his dates are questioned by modern authorities, his 

 order of the progressive degrees of refinement in the 

 paste are acceptable as he suggests them. In respect 

 to the Marlborough sherd, although it is coarser than 

 the white-coated fragments described above, it ans>vers 

 very well Shaw's description of sandy-gray "Crouch" 

 ware. 



Wmri; salt-glazed ware. — .Xbout 1720 calcined 

 flints were added to the bixiy of the Staffordshire 

 stoneware, thus niaking possible a homogenous white 

 body that did not require a coating of slip bet%veen 

 the body and the glazed surface.'*" Willi this ware 

 the Staffoidshiic potters came closer to their goal of 

 < inulating porcelain. 



At Marlborough the earliest examples of this im- 

 proved ware aie found in two sherds with incised 

 decorations that were scratched into the wet clay 

 (L'S.XM 59.1819, Fl- ""I'l; the incised lines next 



were filli-d with powdered col>alt l>eli ' 



technique is known as "scratch blue," i..., ,-.. • 



of which, existing elsewhere, range from 1 724 lo 1 767. 

 The body in the Marlborough specimens is still 



drab, the whiteness of the later ware not yet 1 ^ 



been achieved. No slip was used, howcxxr, so thai 

 the surface color is a pleasant pale gray. On'- 

 is from a cup with a slightly flaring rim. li. 

 terior decoration i.s in the form of floral sprigs, while 

 the inside has a row of < w 



the rim. The other li-, 



Possibly the cup is part of Mercer's purchase i 



of a dozen "Stn- 



In Boston "Wli , 



advertised in 1 745, and "blue and white . . . Slone 



Ware" in 17.51."' 



A later variant on the "scratch blue" is a class of salt- 

 glazed ware that resembles Wcsterwald stoneware. 

 H d 



ii" , t * 



at random, some of it Ivini? on the sui : 



ni- r- 



small IxjwI.i A\\A cups. 1 ill these 



o< ■ 



'"Ibid.; Bern.\hi> Rsckiiam. Eai\i Slafordihh/ Potltry 

 (London, n.d.), p. 20. 



'••Bfrnard Rackiiau and llERDiiHr Rilao. r->-!i>': rolU,i — 



(New York: aiarlcs Scribncr's Sons, l92-»\ p " 



•= IViw, op. 111. (f«»>tlKrtr 



