Multi-Chambered Slip
London-shape bowl with common cable against tan slipped ground.
Bull’s Head Tavern (18BC139)
Privy (Feature 9)
c. 1800-1830
Pearlware bowl, banding overlaid with common cable, green glazed herringbone rouletting.
Ruth Saloon (18BC79)
Privy (Feature R-5)
c. 1780-1830
London-shape bowl with common cable against brown slipped background.
Reiff Site (18WA454)
Tenant Household
Common cable on bowl.
White earthenware London shape bowl with common cable
decoration and blue glazed herringbone rouletting.
Federal Reserve (18BC27)
Privy (Feature 30)
Cat's eye (multi-chambered slip) on London-shape bowl.
Cat's eye decorating rim of chamber pot.
Federal Reserve (18BC27)
Lot 129
All images below are from a private collection.
Detail of cable and cat's eye decoration.
Pearlware jug. Vessel shows three uses of the three-chambered slip cup: cat's eye, cable and an unnamed motif where the 3 quills were separated and dragged on the pot surface, c. 1830. 9 inches in height.
Mustard pot decorated with cat's eyes and green-glazed herringbone rouletting. 4 inches in height.
Quart mug with slip banding, cat’s eyes, trailed-tri-color waves and green-glazed roulette bands,. c. 1820. 6 inches in height.
Pearlware pint mug with cable decoration. 5 inches in height.
Porter mug with cable decoration. The turned, molded base is seldom seen on 18th-century examples. Porter mugs are approxiamately as tall as they are wide, made for a specific type of dark beer. 4 inches in height.
Pearlware London-shape bowl. Dripped decoration, possibly created by a three-chambered slip cup with goose quills separated rather than drawn together as for cat's eyes, c. 1810. 8 inches in diameter.
Example of slip dots combed horizontally in a wavy pattern. Rarely seen.
Barrel-form jug with vertical tri-colored "twigs" alternating with blue squiggles. Green-glazed herringbone rouletting, c. 1810. 7 inches in height.