1. Object # 850-JR. In the collection of the Jamestown Rediscovery of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

2. The vessel measures 9.1 in. long and 5.1 in. wide overall. The height of the large compartment is 3 in. and the smaller is 2.7 in.

3. Fifteen double dishes have been recognized in the Museum of London collection. At least three of these vessels have been found in Basing House, Hampshire, England (Stephen Moorhouse, “Finds from Basing House, Hampshire,” Post-Medieval Archaeology 4 [1970]: 50); three are in the British Museum and one is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Moorhouse, “Finds,” p. 51).

4. Moorhouse, “Finds,” p. 51.

5. Medieval Pottery Research Group, “A Guide to the Classification of Medieval Ceramic Forms,” Occasional Paper No. 1 (London: British Library Cataloging Publication, 1998).

6. Border ware derives its name from its area of production—a number of potting centers situated along the borders of Surrey and Hampshire counties in England. This area was a major supplier of London’s domestic earthenware from the late sixteenth century through the late seventeenth century.

7. Post-Medieval Slipped Redware Yellow (PMSRY) is a term applied to white-slipped redwares, with a clear lead glaze appearing yellow, that were produced in London-area kilns during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This ware was usually reserved for the more decorative redware forms, whereas the unslipped redwares of the region were produced for the utilitarian kitchen and storage functions.

8. Both types appear to have been made by throwing an open-based cylinder then deliberately deforming it into a roughly subrectangular vessel. The second, smaller compartment would have been made in the same way from a smaller cylinder, then cut across the diameter and luted onto one side of the main dish. A slab of rolled-out clay was cut to the shape of the double-compartmented form, secured to the base, and trimmed to remove excess clay.