Salt Glaze Stone ware in Historic antherst Tavern .
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One of the rarest types of the small cylindrical drinking mugs is the very infrequent speclmen in salt glaze, that 18th century development of stoneware which has some very devoted followers in this country . The greater proportion of this Salt glaze now found in shops and
collections came from the Staffordshire
towns. It is distinguishable by its light ness, the brittle crispness of ithe moulded
ornament, the thin body, and sparseness of decoration. The salt .glaze mug here-
with illustrated, is oae of the very
earliest types in which the simplified de- sign is incised very sketchily into the
clay, and a blue rubbed in, prior to
firin’g the piece. It was produced near
the middle of the 18th century, and has
been pronounced by no less an authority
than Albert J. Hill of Boston to be one
of the finest of its type. The photo-
graph above was furnished by Miss Carol
Scheid, charming secretary to Mrs. Kim-
ball, whose immense collection of early
mugs graces the Dickinson-Baggs Tavern
in Amherst.
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