Figure 1 Mug, or gorge, attributed to John Dwight, Fulham, ca. 1675. Salt-glazed stoneware. H. 4". (All objects from the James Glenn Collection; photos, Gavin Ashworth.) This early example from John Dwights stoneware manufactory in Fulham can be tightly dated by the manganese slip wash and the distinctive rat-tail terminal attachment of the handle. Dwights patent of 1684 uses the term gorge to describe this globular mug form. Early examples of Dwights stoneware production have been recovered from seventeenth-century American archaeological sites. |