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Figure i i . — Sgraffito-ware platters from Jamestown. 

 The platter shown above has a diameter of 1 5 inches; 

 the others, 12 inches. Colonial National Historical 

 Park. 



"Staffordshire, Broseley, and Glass Warehouse." " 

 Thirty-six years earlier, in 1750, Dr. Pococke, who 

 indefatigably entered every sort of observation in his 

 journal, noted that in Devonshire and Cornwall "they 

 make great use here of Cloume ovens,''* which are 

 of earthen ware of several sizes, like an oven, and 

 being heated they stop 'em up and cover 'em over 

 with embers to keep in the heat." '" Pococke visited 

 Calstock, "where they have a manufacture of coarse 

 earthenware, and particularly of earthenware ovens." '" 



exhibited an oven at the Crystal Palace, where it was 

 described as "generally used in Devonshire for baking 

 bread and meat." *^ In 1786, "Barnstaple ovens" 

 were advertised for sale in Bristol at M. Ewers' 



« Great Exhibition 1S51. Official, Descriptive, and Illustrated Cata- 

 logue, London, 1851, p. 776, no. 131. 



*' W.J. Pountncy, Old Bristol Potteries, Bristol, n.d., pp. 153- 

 154. 



** Cloume = cIoam: "In O. E. Mud, clay. Hence, in mod. 

 dial, use: Earthenware, clay . . . b. attr. or adj." (J. A. H. 

 Murray, ed., A jVew English Dictionary on Historic Principles, 

 O.xford, 1893, vol. 2, p. 509.) 



"J. J. Cartwright, ed.. The Travels through England 0/ Dr. 

 Richard Pococke, Camden Society Publications, 1888, new scr., 

 no. 42, vol. 1, p. 135. 



^o Ibid., vol. 1, p. 131. 



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