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546. HONEY POT 
Probably Staffordshire 
1680-1720 
H 5 1/2" (14 cm)r 
Diam. (body): 6 1/8 (15.6 cm): 
Diam. (with handle): 7 3/8" (18.7 nm) 
BODY CLAY: Medium grained buff 
with small red inclusions. 
LEAD GLAZE: Overall, excluding 
irregular, wide, horizontal patch on 
interior of shoulder and. on exterior, 
lower extreme and bottomr 
SHAPE: Thrown. Pulled handle with 
irregular raised rib along spine. 
Slightly concave bottom. 
SLIP GROUND: Pale cream-colored, 
overall on interior and upper edge. 
Dark brown, overall on exterior, exclud 
ing where partially wiped off on lower 
extreme and bottom. 
DECORATION: Trailed. "Wheel" and 
dot-cluster motifs, 
Ex colts: K. Prentis Murphy; New Hampshire 
Historical Society, L B. Grigsby. 
    he decoration shown here, including cream-colored dot clusters (see nos.
S26, 
S27) and otherl motifs trailed against a dark slip ground, is of' a general
type 
that was used in Staffordshire and eventually at Bristol and elsewhere in
England (see also no. S97). Several other dark-ground honey pots bear diff'erent
motifs. On one the large-dot rosettes are interspersed with flowerheads(?)
con- 
posed of a large dot within a ring of tiny dots., (The same motits ornament
the 
base of what may be a honey pot that was excavated at Norwich.)' Another
honey pot bears trailed and combed vertical banding, somewhat like that on
number S58; a second has combed vertical bands that alternate with rows of
dots; and on a third, large S-scrolls with trefbil terminations alternate
with 
smaller, forked motitfs.ý 
    Several other vessels of this same general form (originally with low-domled
lids) bear motif's so closely associated with Staffordshire as to indicate
that the 
group originated there in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
A 
honey pot excavated at Temple Balsall, a domestic site in Warwickshire, bears
fine, dense combing.' The "stitched" border and trailed animals
on an example 
with a cream-colored ground also are associated with the Potteries region.'
1. Rackhani and Read, inglish P)ottery, pl. :36, 
fig. 60 {wilh probably married lid). For a low, 
Wide C1u Wiith latge dot-ciuster r iii i'o   ring ed 
by smaller dots, i otin a group ol "laie 171h-cen- 
to y s/ipware r ecovered fr'omt a wor5ktman's 
trench at plh p'resent-day Sadler's lactory in 
lnurslem," see Bairker, Staff'ordshire Potteries, 
p. 6, pl. 8. 
2. Jennings, Norwich, p. 107, fig. 44, no. 723, 
and for similar decoration on ac mug, no. 720. 
3. I    ia(kha il and Read, English 'oltery, pl. 36, 
fig. 61; Stoke-on-T rent collection. lHoney, 1948 
IFCC Exhibition, pi. 10, no. 39. 
4. Gooder, Temnple Balsall, pp. 205 206, fig. 30, 
no. 22 3. For olher combed honey pols, see 
Grigsby, Slipware, p. 57, pl. 71t Atkins, 
E xhibition (1998), no. 6; Earle, Collection, p. 8, 
no. :3. 
5. Raciham and Read, English PotterLy, pl. :,1, 
fig. 50. An example with the samse borders 
f'raining flowers soimewhat like those oin 
Longridge dish no. S32 is in the Stoke-on-Trent 
collection. 
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