Melon Tureen, ca. 1765
Staffordshire, England
Earthenware (creamware)
Chipstone Foundation 1986.3

Image of alchemist’s laboratory
taken from Elias Ashmole,
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
London, 1652.

Three crucibles and a saggar
modeled after seventeenth-century originals.
{Made by Michelle Erickson, 2008.}