View all examples of MARINE WARE
| Type Name: | MARINE WARE |
| Type Index: | MAJOLICA |
| Production Origin: | UNKNOWN |
| Date Range: | 1700-1775 |
| Defining Attributes: |
Paste is orange to brownish red-colored with coarse sand temper. Vessels are covered with a smooth, thick, mint-green enamel, usually undecorated. |
| Vessel Forms: |
BACIN STORAGE JAR |
| Comments: | This term has been used in Florida to describe a coarse earthenware covered with a green undecorated tin enamel in utilitarian forms. Examples have been noted in the collections of St. Augustine and Havana. A similar undecorated variety has been noted in the collections from Panama Vieja, possibly made locally during the seventeenth century. |
| Published Definitions: | Clausen 1970; Deagan 2002:95-96 |