18th Century English Slipware and Portsmouth, New Hampshire

According to the book, 'Norton Stoneware and American Redware: The Bennington, Vermont Museum Collection,' "Among the ceramics imported into eighteenth-century America were Chinese porcelain, and English white-salt glazed stoneware, cream-colored earthenware and common yellow earthenware. 

Jonathan Warner of Portsmouth, New Hampshire advertised 'common yellow Ware' in 1762, Peirse Long (also of Portsmouth, New Hampshire) sold 'yellow Earthen Ware' in 1767, and Samuel Griffith (also of Portsmouth, New Hampshire) had in stock in 1773 'Spotted Earthen Ware Porringers.'

Much slip-decorated earthenware, and earthenware with a clear glaze, both known as 'slipware,' was made in Staffordshire, England in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. These ceramics have been found in homes and archaeological sites in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut, as well as Virginia, suggesting that they were distributed up and down the eastern seaboard."

The following objects are likely examples of the types of slipware, which would have been handled by Jonathan Warner, Peirse Long and Samuel Griffith in the 1760's and 1770's in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Coincidentally, these objects also retain a history of ownership in Portsmouth.

18th Century English Slipware

18th Century Slip-Decorated Earthenware Pitcher Probably Made in Staffordshire, England

This is the Type of Object that was Described in Portsmouth, NH in the 1760's ands 1770's

Photo Courtesy: Private Portsmouth, NH Collection

18th Century Slip-Decorated Earthenware Pitcher and Cup Probably Made in Staffordshire, England

These are the Type of Objects, Which were Described in Portsmouth, NH in the 1760's ands 1770's

Photo Courtesy: Private Portsmouth, NH Collection

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