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Crockery - Brown earthen pans are said to be best for milk and for cooking. Tin pans are lighter, and more convenient, but are too cold for many purposes. Tall earthen jars, with covers, are good to hold butter, salt, lard, etc. Acids should never be put into the red earthen ware, as there is a poisonous ingredient in the glazing which the acid takes off. Stone ware is better and stronger, and safer every way than any other kind.
Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home, 1869
A Nottingham-ware pot, with a lid, to hold a gallon or two, is very useful; especially if you have an oven: it does well to make a stew or soup, on which I shall give you a hint presently.
Esther Copley, Cottage Comforts, 1841
Everyday domestic pottery - uk & us traditions - resources
American redware and earthenware
Books you can order from Amazon:
Redware: America's Folk Art Pottery
American Redware
Central Pennsylvania Redware Pottery, 1780-1904 (Oral Traditions Project)
Norton Stoneware and American Redware: The Bennington Museum Collection
Slipped and Glazed: Regional American Redware
- Online exhibition explaining redware techniques
- Virginia and Tennessee earthenware and potters
- Redware from Huntington, NY
- Sheffield Historical Society
- Vermont redware crock
- Pennsylvania redware
- 1930 redware jug
- Slip-decorated redware
North American pottery - mixed
- Canadian pottery
- Pottery from the Index of American Design at the National Gallery of Art
- Identifying fragments found in Illinois
- Early Wisconsin stoneware and earthenware
- Early American earthenware from Jamestown, with 17th C European pottery
- Pottery found at Jamestown
- Early Southern pottery
- Jugtown, Illinois - 19th C pottery production
- Akron, Ohio - local pottery in the 19th C, included in company history
American salt-glazed stoneware >>>>
UK redware
English Border Ware
General UK household pottery resources
- Devon and other pottery (scroll down and click on photos)
- Welsh pottery
- Bristol pottery
English stoneware
UK tin-glazed pottery, English delftware
Glossary of pottery terms
>>>> American redware - rare beauty from red clay?
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