Lot Essay
Among enameled ground colors used on saltglazed stoneware, this shade of deep-purple made with maganese oxides is one of the least common. For a similarly glazed milk-jug, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware, 1650-1800, London, 1990, p. 96, no. 27.