White Salt-Glazed Stoneware Teawares

Top Row: Undecorated Tea Saucers; Middle Row: Scratch Blue tea Saucers and Bowls; Bottom Row: Press Molded Plate and Jug
These pieces were all found in the cellar hole of the Richard and Ruth Taylor house. The cellar is believed to have been added in the 18th century to the original post in ground house built ca. 1649. White salt-glazed stoneware was a middle to lower class alternative to porcelain in the middle 18th century. It had the white and blueness of porcelain but obviously wasn’t.