Other modes of ornamenting are shown on Fig. [234].
CHAPTER IV.
Pottery of the Norman and Mediæval Periods—Examples from illuminated MSS.—Norman Potworks at Burley Hill—The Ferrars Family—Mediæval Pottery—-Grotesque Vessels—Costrils—Mammiform Vessels—The Cruiskeen or Cruiska—Godets, &c.—Simpson’s Petition—Rous and Cullyn’s Patent—Bellarmines—Ale-pots—Salt glazing—Butter-pots—Dr. Plot—State of Staffordshire Potteries—Combed Ware—Ariens Van Hamme—John Dwight—The brothers Elers—The Tofts—William Sans—Tygs—Candlesticks—Cradles, &c.
Of the pottery of the Norman period but little has been said by any writers, and that simply because but little was known. I had the good fortune, however, a few years’ back, to discover the remains of a kiln[30] of that period, in and around the remains of which were many vessels—“wasters” as they would be technically called—of various kinds. This discovery was all the more interesting and valuable, as being the only instance of the finding of a kiln either of the Anglo-Saxon or Norman periods, and it has enabled me to identify and appropriate to this age vessels from other localities. To these I shall presently refer.
Fig. 262.
Pitcher, temp. Henry III.
Fig. 263.