Astbury-type Ware

Astbury-type Ware - (Ceramics, Pottery, England) Thinly potted earthenware with a dense, dull-red body and a ginger colored lead glaze. Decorated by engine turning or with white clay sprig-molding. A finely-grained, homogenous earthenware body, with a high-fired red paste. Lead glaze producing a ginger to light-chocolate brown surface color. Vessels can be plain, decorated with white slip bands around the rim, or sprig-molded in white pipe clay with animals, flowers, and royal arms. Some pots were slip cast in molds, producing raised decorative panels with human and animal figures or floral motifs, or were painted with gold enamel on the body.
Forms include teapots and cups, bowls, and coffee pots. Fine red earthenware’s are commonly named Astbury Ware after the potter John Astbury (1686 – 1743), but many other potters in Staffordshire also made this ceramic, so "Astbury-type" is a more appropriate name. However, others have suggested that even "Astbury-type" is misleading, since there is no firm evidence that John Astbury made this ware, and thus names like "fine red earthenware" are preferred.