Post Medieval - Tin glazed (majolica & faience) (7.TG.BE.0001)
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- Category
- Tin glazed (majolica & faience) (Post Medieval)
- Fabric name
- Chronology
- Post Medieval > Modern > 1750-1800
- Dating method(-s)
- morphology, historical sources
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- biscuit waster (rim fragment plate); referred to as "rough fired ware"
Find location
- Site type
- Pottery production
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Brugge
- Site name
- Brugge, Arsenaalstraat
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Stedelijke Archeologische Dienst Brugge
- Additional contextual information
- attributed to the workshop/pottery company of Hendrik Pulinx; excavation/site code BR78/ARS; excavation location "Minnewater kasteel"
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- Yes
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- partial glaze
- Slip
- No
- Slip color
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Surface color
- white, beige
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- beige white
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- quartz, pink/red inclusions (grog ? quartz ?)
- Matrix and voids
- small vughs
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- sample BR_ARS_ST3a
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.A7a
- Original inventory nr.
- B0007
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
-
Majolica (oxidized) white-yellow fabric; dark brown (PPL), dark brown (XP).
Homogenous matrix, non-calcareous with no optical activity.
- ca. 55-70% - Inclusions
-
Quartz (++; mono+, poly-), sedimentary rock detritus (+-; quartz arenite), chert (-), metamorphic rock detritus (-; low grade), feldspars (-; plagioclase), muscovite mica (+-; el), O/Fe (+-).
The coarse fraction consists of medium sand, the fine fraction consists of fine sand, bimodal distribution. Grains are generally rounded to subrounded. Overall the fabric is poorly sorted and poorly orientated, single to double spaced.
- ca. 20-30% - Voids
-
Many vughs of various sizes, drying cracks, no infill, well aligned.
- ca. 10-15% - Diagnostic features
- The fabric is characterized by a homogenous oxidized matrix with no optical activity and moderately high porosity. Dominant quartz inclusions with common sedimentary rock detritus, muscovite mica and opaques/iron oxides, few chert, metamorphic rock detritus and feldspars. Overall poorly sorted fabric.
- Additional information
- No glaze.
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 7.TG.BE.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Raakvlak, Onroerenderfgoeddepot De Pakhuizen
- Host collection
- Raakvlak, Onroerenderfgoeddepot De Pakhuizen
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
De Witte 1978
- Full reference
-
De Witte H. 1978. Arsenaalstraat: 18de-eeuwse faïenceindustrie. Het Brugs Ommeland 18, 4: 307.
Van Den Abeele 1986
- Full reference
-
Van Den Abeele A. 1986. De faiencefabriek aan het Minnewater te Brugge (1750-1818). Handelingen van het Genootschap voor geschiedenis 123, 1-2: 61-105.
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.