Surrey whiteware
[4] Small quantities of white-fired, sandy textured jugs, cooking pots and bowls also appeared during the mid-thirteenth century in London.
Cheam whiteware and Coarse Border ware dominated the pottery market in London and its surrounding areas during the 15th century.
[2][11] The fabric colours of Surrey whiteware are: buff, beige off-white, cream, and pale grey.
Tudor Green ware has a fabric that varies from soft to hard, with a smooth surface and a fine texture.
On Kingston-type ware, the glaze was typically crazed and usually varied in finish from thin and uneven to thick and glossy.
Cheam whiteware's glaze generally was crazed with a finish ranging from thin and uneven to thick and glossy.
Additional decoration techniques include one or more of the following: coating individual pieces with a white or red slip, the application of stamps or the marking of lines on an item with a comb.
More complex designs include stamped bosses, floral patterns, overlaid scales, and pinecone impressions.
[15] The primary market for Coarse Border ware was individual households; pottery items were generally used for preparing food.
[16] Besides the application of a green glaze, horizontal bands and engraved lines are some of the simplest forms of decoration for Coarse Border ware.
These items include jugs, cooking pots, large deep bowls and pans, small bowls, dripping dishes, lobed cups, chamber pots, money boxes, candlesticks, chafing dishes, lids, pipkins, skillets, costrels (portable flasks) and storage jars.
[20] Large jugs with cross-hatched engraving are a distinctive form of Coarse Border ware common in London in the late 13th to early 14th centuries.
These new forms were typically plain pottery items, undecorated or decorated simply with grooved lines.
The Reading Beds between Farnham and Tongham were the best source of potting clay for medieval potters producing wares for the London market.
[23] The northern outcrops of the Reading Beds that extend past Farnham and continue to Guildford and Cream, also provided a good supply of white-firing clays for pottery manufacturing.
[24] Medieval pottery kiln sites were established in locations near the raw clay needed for manufacturing.
Along with the London market and surrounding area, the pottery was traded along the River Thames, as well as in Hampshire, as far south as Winchester and Berkshire.
