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<p>[QUOTE="jimmybob97, post: 4398849, member: 60340"]Ah, I kind of figured those techniques have been around for a while. Looks like we share a similar dating range, I was thinking 19th century or 18th century possibly. </p><p><br /></p><p>It appears my pictures may have failed to capture the true color of my pitcher because I had the flash on, but I wouldn't say it's "white". The color of my pitcher is more beige in natural lighting, but definitely not like porcelain white. Yet the surface does retain a relatively smooth finish while looking "gloopy" like the glaze was sloppily applied.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn't point out the fact the base material appears to be some crude clay compound in my initial post by looking at the chipping areas. The exposed material on the base even appears to show some little pebbles or some other material in the clay matrix. I assumed this was normal with earthenware.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jimmybob97, post: 4398849, member: 60340"]Ah, I kind of figured those techniques have been around for a while. Looks like we share a similar dating range, I was thinking 19th century or 18th century possibly. It appears my pictures may have failed to capture the true color of my pitcher because I had the flash on, but I wouldn't say it's "white". The color of my pitcher is more beige in natural lighting, but definitely not like porcelain white. Yet the surface does retain a relatively smooth finish while looking "gloopy" like the glaze was sloppily applied. I didn't point out the fact the base material appears to be some crude clay compound in my initial post by looking at the chipping areas. The exposed material on the base even appears to show some little pebbles or some other material in the clay matrix. I assumed this was normal with earthenware.[/QUOTE]
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