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Internet Archaeology is pleased to announce that issue 16 has opened
with:-
Buckley Sgraffito: a study of a 17th century pottery industry in
North Wales, its production techniques and design influences
by Christine Longworth
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue16/longworth_index.html
Summary
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The area around Buckley in North Wales has been associated with the
production of pottery since the 13th or 14th centuries. In the early
17th century, the technique of sgraffito decoration spread to north
Devon and Somerset from the continent. Buckley is the only known site to
produce early sgraffito wares in northern Britain.
This article aims to establish the date of the production and range of
early sgraffito wares at Buckley and to examine the derivation of the
designs and illustrations on the vessels. An illustrated interactive
catalogue has been produced and a comparative study made of sgraffito
wares elsewhere to place Buckley into a national and international
context.
The article also discusses the most common design themes on the pots
(tulips, leaves, mottoes, animals and birds) hich relate very closely to
the designs featured on other objects made in the same period such as
textiles, wallpaper, furniture and manuscripts. An interesting sub-group
of pieces with animal and bird motifs and mottoes on the rims is also
examined, revealing an influence from a resurgence of interest in the
medieval bestiary texts and illustrations from the 16th and 17th
centuries.
This article will particularly inform those with a research interest in
post-medieval material culture, archaeologists working on excavations in
North Wales and Design History specialists. No Buckley sgraffito has
been found outside Buckley itself, although Buckley black-glazed wares
have been tentatively identified in the eastern states of north America
and locations around the Irish Sea, so this article should also interest
pottery researchers from overseas.
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