Examples Of Lead-Glazed Earthenware Made At Jamestown Between 1625 and 1640
The Potter:
The Potter 1, sitting over a Wheel 2, maketh Pots 4, Pitchers 5, Pipkins 6, Platters 7, Pudding-Pans 8, Juggs 9, Lids 10, &c of Potters-clay 3, afterwards he baketh them in an Oven 11, and glazeth them with White-Lead. A broken pot, affordeth Pot-sheards, 12.
Courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C.
Making Pottery In The Seventeenth Century
The kick wheel used by the Jamestown potter may have resembled the one in the seventeenth-century engraving.
From Orbis Sensualium Pictus by Johann Comenius (London, 1685).