Figure 52 Pipkin, William Rogers, Yorktown, Virginia, 1720–1745. Lead-glazed earthenware. H. 4 1/8". (Courtesy, National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown Collection.) COLO Y 71194. Earthenware pipkins are cooking pots with a flat base or three legs, bulbous walls with a rim spout, and a solid or open handle applied at an angle. The handles are tapered and pulled, with cut or pinched-off ends. Some pipkins had large, hollow-thrown handles into which a wooden dowel could be inserted. Stonewares are thrown, solid cylinders, measuring 4 1/2" in rim diameter, 3 1/2" at base, and 4 1/2" high. This nearly complete lead-glazed example shows how they were stacked directly on top of each other in the kiln. One footed pipkin, mostly lead-glazed with a wide cylindrical handle, was found in Gloucester Town, an eighteenth-century settlement facing Yorktown across the York River.
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