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Ceramics > Pottery > Mocha ware

Preferred term

Mocha ware  

Definition

  • Pottery, principally England, beginning before 1785, ornamented with moss-like designs made by dabbing the body with a brush charged with a liquid pigment, which spread out in branching tree-like traceries [Savage & Newman]

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • Banded creamware, mocha ware
  • Creamware, mocha
  • Dipped ware, mocha ware
  • Fern pottery
  • Leeds ware, mocha ware
  • Moss pottery
  • Tobacco-spit ware
  • Tree pottery

Notation

  • 121677

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-WZHQH12D-M

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