This Brittany Blue on White plate was found in a large pit from the Rochon family occupation. Plates with the same floral medallion were found in a refuse pit at Fort Toulouse, a French site dating from 1717 to 1763. Green lead-glazed ceramics are attributed to potteries in the Saintonge region of southwestern France. These are primarily bowls used in food preparation. English delft was readily available during the British colonial period from 1763 to 1780, and most of the English delft tablewares from the Dog River site once belonged to the Rochon family.
English delft includes plates, platters, bowls, a charger, and an apothecary jar.
This colorful sherd is probably from a punch bowl. Decorations on Dutch delft are thickly painted in richer, deeper cobalt blues when compared to English delft. The Dutch delft probably dates to the second half of the 18th century and was in the households of the Rochon and Demouy families. The few early pieces of Spanish colonial majolica, such as Puebla Polychrome and Ab Polychrome, was used by the Rochons while they lived at the Dog River plantation. The late 18th and early 19th-century majolica such as Aranama Polychrome and Nopaltapec Polychrome types were tablewares in the Demouy household.