Punch Pot
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Selection from the Burnap Collection of English Ceramics, M. H de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, February 2 – March 2, 1964, no cat.
Bread and Wine, Hallmark Gallery, New York, March 8–May 12, 1967, no cat.
Both stoneware and salt glaze were introduced to England from Germany in the 17th century. Salt-glazed stoneware is created by adding common salt, a composition of sodium and chlorine, into the chamber of a hot kiln; the sodium acts as a melting agent and reacts with the clay's silica causing an orange-peel texture. First practiced in London, the medium spread to Staffordshire around 1720. Here, it reached its highest level of technological development and its most varied range of types and forms.
Micah Salt (1847-1915), Buxton, England;
His posthumous sale at Messers. Charles Butters & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, England, October 52-27, 1927, lot 53;
John Henry Taylor, Esq. (1849-1930), Birstall, England;
His posthumous sale Sotheby and Co., London, November 13, 1930, lot. 456;
Mr. Frank P. (1861-1957) and Mrs. Harriet C. (1866-1947) Burnap, Kansas City, MO, by 1941;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, rev. ed. (1953; Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1967), 83 (repro.).
