William Pittman, David Brown, and Thane Harpole
Langerwehe Stoneware Vessel from Gloucester Courthouse Jail, Gloucester, Virginia

Ceramics in America 2011

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    The woman in this early-twentieth-century photograph is making butter in a Langerwehe brown salt-glazed stoneware churn with a scalloped foot. (Courtesy, Töpfereimuseum, Langerwehe, Germany.)

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Storage jar or churn fragment, Langerwehe, Germany, probably mid-eighteenth century. Salt-glazed stoneware. H. 5". (Courtesy, Gloucester County; photo, Robert Hunter.) 

  • Figure 3
    Figure 3

    Base of the vessel fragment illustrated in fig. 2.