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Hand-made

Tripod pitcher

MPRG 3.01.14

Highly decorated tripod pitcher

Collared, sometimes inverted

Multiple strap and twisted

Slightly sagging with small circular and oval sectioned tripod feet.

Green

Near total

Applied strips, stabbing and roller stamping

These pitchers are highly decorated in a combination of incised, stabbed and applied decoration. The exterior is well covered by a green lead glaze. Internally the glaze is largely around the rim. They have applied oval sectioned feet and mutiple strap and twisted rod handles.

Such vessels were probably used for the storage of liquids although they may have been used for grain and pulses. They would have been very heavy when full and were probably tipped to decant thier contents into smaller vessels

These do not seem to have had a wide distribution and are not, for example found at Droitwich.

Medieval (12th-13th century)
Typologically, these vessels are similar to the highly decorated tripod pitchers in Minety type ware (fabric 65) and early Malvernian glazed ware (fabric 53) which date from the 12th century. There is no evidence that they continued to be produced after the early 13th century.

Identification can be problematic if sherds are small, as the multiple handles and variety of decoration types can be wrongly attributed to other forms such as simpler pitchers and jugs. Therefore it is possible that distribution was wider than currently recognised.