Birds, ca. 1760
Staffordshire, England
Salt-glazed stoneware (agateware)
Chipstone Foundation 1987.4.1and 1987.8

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.}