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Article: English shell-edged earthenware.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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One of the most popular and long-lived styles ever produced by the English ceramics industry was the shell edge. To judge by documentary and archaeological evidence, it was made and exported in such large quantities between 1780 and 1860 that it appears to have been used in almost every American household during the early Federal period. However, as with many objects that were once commonplace, there has been little systematic research into the importance of shell-edged tablewares in the larger context of English ceramic history.(1)
Many collectors today mistakenly refer to these wares as feather-edge or more generically as Leeds ware. However, during the ...