Stoneware
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Stoneware is a broad class of pottery fired at a relatively high temperature, to be impervious to water. A modern definition is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay o
Jian ware tea bowl with "hare's fur" glaze, southern Song dynasty, 12th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art (see below)
Three contemporary stoneware mixing bowls
Telegraph insulator, 1840s–1850
American stoneware jug with Albany slip glaze on the top, c. 1900, Red Wing, Minnesota
Elers brothers
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John Philip Elers and his brother David Elers were Dutch silversmiths who came to England in the 1680s and turned into potters. The Elers brothers were important innovators in English pottery, bringin
Mug, 1693-98, with Chinese-style prunus-blossom sprigging
Two teapots: left by the Elers; right, Chinese Yixing ware of 1627.
Elers Brothers mug, 1690s
Later(?) teapot with sprigged vine decoration