Dating westerwald pottery

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TWO WESTERWALD STONEWARE GLOBULAR JUGS THE FIRST DATED ​, THE SECOND CIRCA Comprising a small example.

Colonial Ceramics. True stoneware was developed in Germany at the end of the 13th century, and was exported to England in the 14th century Gaimster , This trade with England peaked in the 17th century Gaimster The towns of Cologne and Raeren were leading stoneware production centers in the first half of the 16th century, and the term “Cologne ware” was popularly applied to all mottled brown stonewares.

By the midth century, the nearby town of Frechen had replaced Cologne as a pottery center, and supplanted Raeren as the leading exporter of brown stoneware to England Gaimster , , This trade began to decline in the midth century, and the development of English brown stoneware in the late 17th century greatly diminished the demand for Rhenish brown stoneware.

Blue on gray stoneware developed in Raeren in the midth century, but primary production had shifted to the Westerwald region by the end of that century. Although Westerwald products were less common than the Frechen-type brown stonewares in England before ca. In the Chesapeake region, Rhenish brown and blue on gray stonewares were in use from the earliest days of colonial settlement. Around , there was a revival of the Rhenish stoneware tradition in Germany, in which the vessels that had been produced centuries earlier were often imitated.

Fabric Rhenish stoneware has a hard, impermeable body with low porosity. It can be partly vitrified, particularly on the blue on gray wares. The paste of the brown wares is generally coarser than that of the blue on gray, and can have occasional inclusions.