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VESSEL
Unique ID: DENO-206444
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Early post-Medieval glazed earthenware Ticknall ware Midlands Purple / Cistercian ware jug/pitcher, almost complete, mid 16th-early 17th century. Globular vessel with single handle attached from high up on the body to the neck. Neck bulges at the centre; top of neck and rim broken off. handle and narrow neck broken off. Flat beaded base. Metallic purplish-brown glaze over most of the external surface except around the bottom & base where it dribbles unevenly; the glaze is flecked with white specks (characteristic of Ticknall ware). Orange-red fabric. Height c.180mm, diameter of base c.80mm, diameter of neck c.30mm.
A similar Midlands Purple ware vessel (although a waster) is illustrated in Usher's 'Ticknall Pottery and the Calke Collection' (1989 (reprint 2000), Derby Porcelain International Society Journal), p.8 no.11; said to have been found during building work on a house in Ticknall, it is described as a harvest jug, and dated to the early 17th century.
Class: jug
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 180 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: DBYMU L1971-214 : DBYMU exit form 3010
Museum accession number: DBYMU L1971-214 (returned to finder)
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Manufacture method: Wheel made
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Glazed
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Staffordshire (County)
District: East Staffordshire (District)
To be known as: Anslow
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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