Chapter VI: Part II: POTTERY EVIDENCE--Ivor Noël Hume 91

THE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE 91

STONEWARE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES 102

THE EARTHENWARES 105

CONCLUSIONS 109

The "Poor Potter" of Yorktown

_Pottery making in colonial Virginia, strongly discouraged by
a mercantilistic England, seemingly was almost nonexistent
according to the Governor's reports which mention but one nameless
"poor potter" at Yorktown, whose wares are dismissed as being
low in quantity and quality. This paper, the combined effort
of a historian and an archeologist, provides evidence that the
Yorktown potter was neither poor nor nameless, that his ware was
of sufficient quantity and quality to offer competition to English
imports, and that official depreciation of his economic importance
apparently was deemed politic by the colonial Governor._

THE AUTHORS: _C. Malcolm Watkins is curator of cultural history in
the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology,
and Ivor Noël Hume is director of archeology at Colonial
Williamsburg and an honorary research associate of the Smithsonian
Institution._