Antique Primitive Salt Glaze Stoneware Butter Crock

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Stoneware is pottery made out of clay that is fired to a high temperature. The pottery becomes essentially stone. Salt-glaze pottery is a type of pottery produced by adding salt to a kiln to create a glass-like coating on the pottery. Potters began producing salt-glaze stoneware circa 1720 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Yorktown, Virginia. By 1820 stoneware was being produced virtually in every American urban area. Potters from Baltimore, Maryland in particular raised the craft to its pinnacle. Stoneware salt-glaze pottery was usually decorated using cobalt oxide. Stoneware salt-glaze pottery was a safer alternative to lead-glazed earthenware pottery. Before the age of refrigeration, butter was often kept in earthenwre pots large or small, sometimes submerged in water. Butter Crocks kept butter fresh at room temperature (up to about 80 degrees) on the counter for several weeks before spoiling. This is an Antique large stoneware salt glaze butter crock that is decorated with bands of cobalt blue. The Antique Stoneware is vey well made and weighs 4 1/2 pounds. The butter crock is in excellent condition without damage or cracks. The antique stoneware salt glaze butter crock has a beautiful aged patina and the surface is bright and lusterous. The stoneware butter crock measures 7 1/2 inches wide and 5 inches in height. The circumference read more
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