Condiment dish

London-type ware condiment dish with white slip and green glaze. London-type ware was the major glazed pottery made and used in the London area from the middle of the 12th until the late 13th century. Archaeological evidence shows that the industry began towards the end of the 11th century and that it continued up to the time of the Black Death in the mid 14th century. After a hiatus in the later 14th century, production resumed around 1400, when the fabric is known as late London-type ware. The London-area potters used local red-firing brickearth and sands. All medieval London-type wares are thrown on a potter's wheel (with the exception of a few slab-built forms), and most have a lead glaze applied, often over a white slip and frequently coloured green by adding copper. In 2007 London-type ware kilns were discovered in Woolwich, which finally located one of the industry's production sites.