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A series of posts on Rhenish Stoneware
#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement #BartmannGoesGlobalAt the end of the Gothic period and the beginning of the Renaissance the cities on the Rhine and the Meuse held an ever larger group of people with a bit of money and a need to represent. A similar need was had by the lower nobility.
They wanted better tableware than their poor "cousins", but pewter was out of the question. IN parallel, more sophisticated (and longer lasting) stoneware drinking vessels could be seen in the taverns.
The stoneware followed the wine trade and the beer trade of the Hanse all the way to Scandinavia, Iceland, the Baltics, Russia, England, and of course what are today the Netherlands and Belgium.
From the Netherlands and England stoneware than crossed oceans.
There is a really fascinating project, [Bartmann goes global](https://www.bartmanngoesglobal.org) that follows the stoneware to the Americas, Africa, Asia, South East Asia, even New Zealand and Australia.
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