Jug

A Post-Medieval redware jug with pouring lip, applied cordons around the neck, slender biconical body and rod handle. The exterior is partly covered with splashes of lead glaze.

London post-medieval redware (LPMR) is a ceramic type that incorporates wheel-thrown coarse earthenware objects made in and around London for a variety of utilitarian purposes. Areas of production included Woolwich, Deptford, Lambeth, and Moorfields. Potters in Woolwich produced redware vessels that are slip-coated on the interior bases and lower walls, a ceramic type known as London post-medieval slipware. The fabric is typically extremely rough and sandy with numerous naturally occurring inclusions, especially quartz sand and red and black ferrous inclusions of various sizes and colors. Most LPMR fabrics are brick-like, reddish-orange in color, and have a gray core. Not unusual are large chunks of white calcined quartz that push through the interior and/or exterior of the vessels. Colorless lead glazes, often quite spotty in areas, usually are found on the interior of LPMR vessels, but only drips and spots of glaze occasionally appear on their exteriors and/or bases. Better quality and more refined redwares known as(EPMFR) were made in Essex. Documentary evidence for the medieval pottery manufacture in the Harlow area of Essex, England, just north-east of London, is questionable, but records suggest pottery was made there as early as 1254. By the early post-medieval period, the industry was well positioned for potters to supply London markets in the 16th and 17th centuries with a variety of wheel thrown ceramic objects for household use.