page_title: Surrey whiteware
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Surrey whiteware / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: 13th to 14th century Kingston-type ware biconical jug. Surrey whiteware. Green-glazed and decorated with overlapping scales. Height 22.6 cm.
context_page_description: Surrey whiteware or Surrey white ware, is a type of lead-glazed pottery produced in Britain from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The white-fired sandy earthenware was produced largely from kilns in Surrey and along the Surrey-Hampshire border. Surrey whitewares were the most commonly used pottery in London during the late medieval period. There are four classes of Surrey whiteware: Kingston-type, Coarse Border ware, Cheam whiteware and Tudor Green ware.
context_section_description: Surrey whiteware is a white-fired sand tempered ware, "made from a white-firing clay consisting of angular quartz of fine silt and sand grade, and tempered with varying quantities of rounded quartz sand." The pottery can be separated into four groups. Kingston-type ware, Coarse Border ware, Cheam ware, and Green Tudor ware. All four pottery types have similar sandy textures. The term, "Tudor Green ware" is used to describe the thin-walled, green-glazed white-fired earthenware produced during the Tudor era.
caption: Kingston-type ware
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