Coarse Earthenware at the Dutch Colonial Cape of Good Hope, South Africa: A History of Local Production and Typology of Products |
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Authors: | Stacey C Jordan |
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Institution: | (1) R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, 241 East 4th Street, Frederick, Maryland, 21701 |
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Abstract: | Coarse earthenware production at the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Cape settlement began shortly after the Company established its mercantile entrepôt on the shores of Table Bay in 1652. Made by European Company potters, these vessels reproduced the forms of the homeland in the raw materials of the colony. A history of VOC pottery manufacture and a typological examination of the products illustrates how the global movements of mercantile capitalism combined with the local circumstances of the Cape settlement to create a material form reminiscent of Europe, but purely colonial in the dynamics of its production and use. |
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Keywords: | coarse earthenware Dutch East India Company typology South Africa |
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